On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Alister Waller generated:
>Can I ask why people use non-html enabled mail clients?? What is the benefit
>of this? Is this a linux geeky type thing??
Have you ever used mutt? it's the least sucky of all the mail clients
out there. i find the useablilty/conformance to standards of mutt a much
bigger bonus than the ability to read (non-standard) html postings.
>Seems strange when you look at what computers are capable of that a minority
>(I am taking a stab in the virtual darkness) still insist on using a text
>based mail reader. You mention bandwith, I am sure a lot of you download
>pictures and Mpeg 3's etc which hog a lot more of that than a few extra
>lines of text in an email.
OK, so I should waste some of my precious bandwidth that i'm using to
download mp3s to download html in my email too? fsck that.
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No, I was looking for warez. The pornography was just a useful byproduct.
-- Dave Coote
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