[wellylug] WellyLUG List Noise Levels
Jonathan Harker
jharker at massey.ac.nz
Thu Oct 30 10:07:47 NZDT 2003
David Antliff wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't know how many people here use text-based email readers (pine,
> mutt, mail, etc) but I use pine and it gives me a unique perspective on
> this, and other, mailing lists. I miss out on all the pretty highlighting,
> font size changes, embedded images and all that other completely
> irrelevant and useless stuff. From my ascii-text viewpoint, I find this
> list constantly *full* of 'noise' like redundant HTML versions of plain
> text, encoded vcard signatures and page-long MIME-encoded smiley faces. It
> actually makes reading the digest quite tiring.
I hope it's not me, I have Mozilla, Thunderbird and KMail set to plain text.
Name names! :-)
Cheers,
Jonathan.
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