At 4/13/2000 03:35 PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote or quoted:
>Why bother? If they provide a text fork, then they're saying that
>either alternative has the full information. Why pester them to not
>send a text/html part in addition?
Because I'd like to discourage people from sending mails that contain the
same information twice over. It really tweaks my "waste of bandwidth"
sensors -- if all the text is there, then why increase the message size by
roughly 150% (sometimes more) by sending all that text again, plus HTML tags?
However, since that seems to be my personal itch rather than yours, I
suppose I'll have to modify the script myself, if I ever get around to it.
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Kai MacTane
System Administrator
Online Partners.com, Inc.
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From the Jargon File: (v4.0.0, 25 Jul 1996)
finger trouble /n./
Mistyping, typos, or generalized keyboard incompetence (this is
surprisingly common among hackers, given the amount of time they
spend at keyboards). "I keep putting colons at the end of statements
instead of semicolons", "Finger trouble again, eh?".
