[wellylug] WellyLUG List Noise Levels

[Peter Jones]

The conexant modem driver thread had a few examples

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Harker [mailto:jharker at massey.ac.nz]
Sent: Thursday, 30 October 2003 10:08 a.m.
To: wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz
Subject: Re: [wellylug] WellyLUG List Noise Levels


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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