ARe u mad dam ----- Original Message ----- From: Partha Pratim Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 2:00 PM Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] Ban Html mail
> Dear Friends, > > I was looking at this thread, and was getting pretty bored. > > The e-mail is supposed to be a quick way to pass out information, > in a manner quite unformatted. If, need arises to pass on something in a > formatted way then one can understand the necessity for such mails of > which HTML is one (although the quality of formatting is still very very > primitive). Thus, in passing out plain and simple conversation, I do not > quite understand the necessity of such a long thread on the use of HTML > mails. I think it should be pretty clear that one we should stop this > thread immediately and decide in favor of plain text mails. > > What do we do if need arises for formatted text ? I can provide > another simple solution to this. Please compose your formatted text in > TeX/LaTeX, send the ascii .tex file as an attachment or copy it there > with a note on the part that is under TeX/LaTeX. This shall solve the > problem of sending formatted material as well as reduce the bandwidth. > > Please give this a thought. I know I am quite drastic at times, > please do bear with me; and it is better we concentrate on the much more > creative aspects. > > With all my best wishes, > > > On Thursday, September 19, 2002, at 08:43 , Rajesh Kankaria wrote: > > >> Do you have a problem with html mail ? > >> > >> [ ] yes > >> [ ] no > > No I dont have a problem. > > > > > >> html hurts members or not > > It Does. UnNecessary traffic. Lets keep emails to what it were supposed > > to > > be. > > > > Rajesh > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html > > > > > ------ > Partha Pratim Ghosh > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ > Office : Room 414 > Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics > University of Cape Town > Rondebosch 7701 > Cape Town > South Africa > > Telephone : 021-650 5734 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- > Residence : 10, Kingsbury Park > Rondebosch 7701 > Cape Town > South Africa > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- > > "Mathematics is a game, play it..." > > "Algebra : Analysis :: Anatomy : Physiology" > > "Only Topology is boring and only algebra is dull; it is their alloy > that is more interesting..." > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html > -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html
