Message Formatting -- was: Samba & IPTables

Charles Bronson packetgeek at chuckiechanboys.com
Sat Aug 2 12:55:23 UTC 2003


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 archives
>>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. html
>>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 <html>, <p> and <i> tags should
> 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 topic is 
OT from the original discussion and should fork.

Thank you.

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