Hello ! First of all, this is my first post on this list.
I'm a french gentoo user since the 1.4 RC4 pre-"release" and so far, i had been lucky enough to evolve without any serious issue : Gentoo is really a great distrib, probably the cleanier i used ;-) In short, i'm a software engineer in a small company, and i'm using GNU/Linux systems since around 1997. Currently, i spend a great deal of time setting up misterhouse (a home automation project) on my gentoo box. I'm also greatly interested in gentoo-doc and as many of us, i really could benefit of more than 24h a day :-) Now i bothered you enough with my personal life, back to the subject. daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > why bother with the stripping? why not have the mailserver reject > html mail (or mail with no word wrap) and respond with a form letter > explaining how to fix this stuff. I think this could be a good solution, but is it worth the effort ? I really don't think implementation is the right answer to each problem. In this particular case, a short reminder of the rules now and then should be enough. This seems to be more a lack of knowledge than a technical issue, isn't it ? This is my guess that those posters just relied on their own common sense to write their mail. But common sense is obviously not common to every culture. This is what the netiquette[1] is for :) So my opinion is that when a poster forgets to word wrap his mail or when he uses html, we should just send him a private answer (or, like the original poster, a public one) explaining why he do it the wrong way. Having received several polite requests to pay attention, i think he would then consider spending more time on writing his mails. This is not an irc channel after all : we do have time to write ;-) Just my opinion, anyway. > it would be nice though if clients like kmail were capable of choosing > multiple default mail formats based on the recipient or something. You can achieve this using bbdb (the Big Brother DataBase). I don't know if kmail can talk with it, though. Best regards, Pierre-Fran�ois Gomez [1] http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html -- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a rm / -rf. Or ask your administrator to do so... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
