From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from wb2flw.octothorp.org ([63.224.68.2] ident=root) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17kSXM-0006ki-00 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:52:52 -0400 Received: from wb2flw.octothorp.org (wb2flw.octothorp.org [127.0.0.1]) by wb2flw.octothorp.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7TGsCne010298 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:54:12 GMT Received: from localhost (wacker@localhost) by wb2flw.octothorp.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) with ESMTP id g7TGsCZt010293 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:54:12 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: wb2flw.octothorp.org: wacker owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 10:54:11 -0600 (MDT) From: "William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123" To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Reply to your enquiry In-Reply-To: <001001c24f71$cd904c80$4a01a8c0@rgallegos> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi all, HTML is inappropriate for mailing lists. It isn't a speech or mailer issue. It bloats the size of the messages. Some folks are on slow links and don't need to spend the extra time downloading it. And it isn't just the blind oriented lists who dislike it. Just try posting that crap to any of the Red Hat Linux lists and you'll wish for Ann's kindness and gentleness. -- Bill in Denver On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: > Didn't we have this discussion over and over again last year? I use mutt > and outlook express to read email. Occasionally I get html messages but > that is the way of it. We can bitch and moan, but really, how many extra > keystrokes have been done reading all the extra email about one extra > keystroke due to html messages. Seems to me like a lot more. And how many > keystrokes have been pressed to type messages to reply to the original > messages? >