[wellylug] WellyLUG List Noise Levels

[Centurion Computer Technology Ltd]

On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 10:07, Jonathan Harker wrote:

I thought the mailing list could be set to dump all the html, it was
like that when we used yahoo groups.

Ewen.......

> 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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