> Russ Allbery:
> It breaks MIME structured bodies, which are often useful for particular
> purposes. It breaks some signed posts. It's useless information for 99%
> of the recipients. And I'm really sick of seeing mailing list posts
> accumulate more and more worthless junk to the point that it's practically
> more unwanted bytes in my mailbox than spam is. It's rather simple to
you don't take into account that the 'net evolves. gone are the times when
people exchanged email who had also the knowledge to configure uucp.
nowadays any idiot grabs a mouse and klicks away. commerce wants this:
the same idiots are internet customers who don't care how a network is
operated as long as kicks are delivered.
give them a one line footer telling how to unsub. tomorrow the chief
executive information officer of the it-company you work for will keep
asking you how to turn off the lights. thats what commerce wants, because
that's how they sell nuclear plants and pentium V's.
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clemens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
