Linux PDAs/Pocket PCs

[JD Runyan]

On Wed, Jan ,  at 08:55:00AM -0600, DCT Jared Smith wrote:
> >PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR HTML FORMATTING WHEN SENDING TO THE LIST!
> 
> Response 1:
> 
> What kind of cheezy mail reader do
> you have which can't comprehend HTML?
> have you considered upgrading to
> something written in at least the 
> late 90s? Read your mail with a pipe 
> through Lynx, if you must!
> 
> Continually berating all the people 
> on this list for attention to 
> something which is fundamentally 
> voluntary?
> 
> As for me, I prefer everyone to
> write their e-mail in columns no
> wider than 45 columns; you didn't do
> that, now did you.
> 
> Response 2:
> 
> Actually, it might be more fruitful 
> for you to clarify WHY you want people 
> to turn off their HTML. It's most 
> likely because you don't like those 
> spammers who include an image in their 
> HTML message, which is served off 
> their site, which contains an encrypted 
> code which tells them that you read 
> their e-mail, which makes their spam 
> list more valuable. However, I believe
> you are making the logical fallacy of
> equivocation here, which is that all 
> e-mailers to this list are using such 
> techniques, when in fact some of us 
> simply like HTML formatted e-mail.
> 
> Peach background. A little diversity.
> 
> -Jared.
It is a waste of time to pipe it, and a waste of bandwidth to send it.
Email is text, and that is particularly true here on a message list.
Save the peach BG for those managers that are easily impressed.
-- 
JD Runyan
		"You can't milk a point."
			David M. Kuehn, Ph.D.