Re: A89: Re: How TI's keys work


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Re: A89: Re: How TI's keys work




I never send HTML e-mails.

Are we really that limited on bandwidth that we have to worry about saving a
few hundred bytes in e-mail quoting?  Geesh.. :)

Bryan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Noveck" <noveck@pluto.njcc.com>
To: <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: A89: Re: How TI's keys work


>
> >Well, if no one quotes the message in their replies, then how will anyone
> >know what people are replying to?  Quoting is very helpful and useful.
>
> Bryan, look at what you quoted (I left it below):
>
>     1 line of relevant text
>
> along with:
>
>
>     5 lines of 'Original Message' header
>     3 lines from previous quoting (unneccesary)
>     1 line of "Bryan Rabeler wrote:"
>     4 lines of netzero adds
>     6 lines of signature
> and 7 blank lines
> ----------------------------------------------------
> *  26 unnecessary lines
>
> This leaves 3.70% of relevant info.  That's a waste, all right (on a side
> note, most people would spell that as 'alright' -- which technically
doesn't
> exist in English, it's slang). . .
>
> Even worse is when people send HTML emails:
>
> FOR THE LAST TIME, DO NOT SEND HTML FORMATTED EMAILS OR PROGRAMS TO THE
> LIST - JUST PLAIN TEXT!  Majordomo cannot handle this properly for the
> digest format.
>
>     -Scott
>
> >- ----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Scott Dial" <wrath@calc.org>
> >To: <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
> >Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 2:24 PM
> >Subject: Re: A89: Re: How TI's keys work
> >
> >
> >>
> >> No, he wants the mail, just not 30 copys of it in replies.
> >>
> >> Bryan Rabeler wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Sorry, but to put it bluntly:  This *is* a mailing list.  If you
don't
> >want
> >> > mail, unsubscribe. :)
> >> --
> >> Scott "_Wrath_" Dial
> >> wrath@calc.org
> >> ICQ#3608935
> >> TimeCity AI Guy II - www.timecity.org
> >> Member of TCPA - tcpa.calc.org
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