Unloading Linux

[Chris Peterson]

Sounds like just about any list I've run...

So about this HTML e-mail thing...  Has anyone thought of figuring out how
to preprocess HTML mail so it looks fine in pine?  I wonder if it could be
as simple as piping procmail through lynx or something.

Perhaps I'll have to work on that in my copious spare time... <smile>

Chris



----- Original Message -----
From: "Kirk Reiser" <kirk at braille.uwo.ca>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: Unloading Linux


> Yes, there are two things about our readers you need to know, one they
> don't know how to read to the end of a thread to see if it has been
> answered or they just like to see themselves in print. Two, they can't
> resist pulling in previous postings with 7,000 lines just so they can
> say "yeah, me too!".  Oh, and there's a third thing, they don't know
> how to turn off html and just use plain text in their mail messages.
> It is quite frustrating to read an answer posted by 15 people with the
> same result.  I like to tell myself they just haven't learned yet; but
> some folks have been doing the exact same behaviour for two years.  Oh
> well, maybe they're slow learners.
>
>   Kirk
>
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