From packetgeek at chuckiechanboys.com Fri Jun 5 11:51:47 2015 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============6627123341148055050==" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Charles Bronson To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Message Formatting -- was: Samba & IPTables Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2003 08:55:23 -0400 Message-ID: <3F2BB4BB.5010000@chuckiechanboys.com> In-Reply-To: 20030802122332.GA1985@snape.local --===============6627123341148055050== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Robin Green wrote: > On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 02:10:14AM -0400, Tom Diehl wrote: > = >>>And if you're not convinced yet, look at: >>> >>> http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-list/2003-August/msg00003.html >> >>Hummm, that is weird. I do wrap the lines. I do them by hand yet the arch= ives >>do not show them as wrapped. Something is weird here. > = > = > YOUR mails show as wrapped correctly: > = > http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-list/2003-August/msg00002.html > = > However, Aaron Epps' MUA has "helpfully" unwrapped your mail for you ;-) > = > = >>And oh BTW for the people who think html emails are good, guess again. ht= ml >>mail is not readable by all mua's > = > = > It should be, it has more features. Including that if you quote back in > the right way in a reply, HTML paragraphs should never get unintentionally > broken up like text paragraphs do, like: > = > = >>>blah blah foo blah >> >>blah >> >>>foo fo fum fee fi >> >>fum > = > = > which I find annoying. > = > = >>is a security risk > = > = > Not if you turn off (external/all) images and Javascript. > = > = >>and is a waste of >>bandwidth which matters if you have a metered account. > = > = > The amount of bandwidth wasted due to a few ,

and tags shou= ld > be miniscule. Much more bandwidth is wasted by not compressing mails, but= I > don't see the anti-HTML-mail people complaining about that. ;) > = Could we split the formatting debate to a different thread please? The topi= c is = OT from the original discussion and should fork. Thank you. -- = (=C2=AC_ Some days you're the windshield >o) //\ Some days you're the bug... /\\ V_/_ _\_V Charles Bronson --===============6627123341148055050==--