Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Cliff Rowley
Trey Gruel wrote: and you're still wasting the bandwidth of the server and users. granted, for the individual user, the bandwidth used isn't that much, but think about the thousands of messages that the server has to send out for each mail it gets in. it adds up quick there. This whole thread is

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Cliff Rowley
Calvin Spealman wrote: Let's be honest, that's a fault of e-mail itself, which is inherently a horrible protocol anyway. I'm just saying lets do the best we can with what we've got. it isn't like the bandwidth is anything at all compared to the bloated headers and redundant repeating of messages

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-laptop] Gentoo + T40?

2005-05-03 Thread Cliff Rowley
Sorry for the cross post, I originally posted this message to the wrong list. It won't happen again I promise ;-) [actually I screwed up the address in the cross post anyway, so ignore that] I've solved the heating problems at last. I removed the IBM ACPI support from the kernel and installed

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Cliff Rowley
Calvin Spealman wrote: MS? What makes you think I have anything to do with Microsoft or Microsoft software? My HTML messages are sent straight from good-ole gmail. sarcasmTypical blinkered response Calvin. You're either with us or against us. I'm sure I've heard that before somewhere.../sarcasm

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-03 Thread Cliff Rowley
Keziah W wrote: Yes, it is. HTML wastes bandwidth for every message though. True, I was just trying to inject some light humour into the otherwise pointless situation :) flog deadhorse Don't you mean flog deadhorse? :P -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.

[gentoo-user] Gentoo + T40?

2005-05-02 Thread Cliff Rowley
Greetings fellow Gentoo users :) I wonder if anyone could be of assistance. I am desperately trying to get Gentoo playing nicely with my IBM ThinkPad T40, but I am having a /serious/ problem that could easily render my laptop inoperable if I continue to use it. Basically my CPU fan doesn't

[gentoo-user] Laptop + T40

2005-05-02 Thread Cliff Rowley
My apologies, I just discovered the gentoo-laptop mailing list. I will post there too, but my question remains open here if anyone has any assistance they can offer :) Thanks -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.0 -