On 27/09/03 13:12 +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: <snip>
All I heard from the mutt and procmail users here is "change mailing list policies for us because our systems don't like them". Why doesn't anyone come forward and say "lets start a mini project to incorporate html support into procmail/mutt".
Because we use mutt just to avoid the HTML crap? Exactly what more do you express by using HTML? All that you really end up doing is not getting your message through to the people who can really help you. I see no reason to convert a 2KB mail into a 5KB one which gives no additional information and actually creates a lack of clarity at the readers end.
The whole concept of GNU/Linux being a geeks OS only is being stressed here by saying "you gotta learn alternate (probably dificult for some)
Difficult? Only if you use a mail client even more braindead than the ones from Microsoft (which can do plain text. Plain text is the default in Outlook 2003 as well).
ways to express yourself by using your imagination. If you're not good enough then Linux is not for you.. go to your sucky windows".
Sure, if you choose not to be polite on a mailing list, we can choose not to listen to you. Most people posting here seem to understand that plain text is better.
Ban html messages and lose the initiative on getting newbies into the GLUG. Getting warning messages the first time doesn't exactly seem to be a welcoming sign for any newbie probably struggling to install the OS on
Why? Perhaps we do not want to encourage stupidity? I do think that people need to learn to use computers, just because a general purpose computer is necessarily a complex device.
his system. Let it remain an elitist group then. Made up only of GEEKS.
Unix is user friendly. Its just picky about its friends.
Devdas Bhagat