Sounds like just about any list I've run... So about this HTML e-mail thing... Has anyone thought of figuring out how to preprocess HTML mail so it looks fine in pine? I wonder if it could be as simple as piping procmail through lynx or something. Perhaps I'll have to work on that in my copious spare time... <smile> Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kirk Reiser" <kirk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 4:31 PM Subject: Re: Unloading Linux > Yes, there are two things about our readers you need to know, one they > don't know how to read to the end of a thread to see if it has been > answered or they just like to see themselves in print. Two, they can't > resist pulling in previous postings with 7,000 lines just so they can > say "yeah, me too!". Oh, and there's a third thing, they don't know > how to turn off html and just use plain text in their mail messages. > It is quite frustrating to read an answer posted by 15 people with the > same result. I like to tell myself they just haven't learned yet; but > some folks have been doing the exact same behaviour for two years. Oh > well, maybe they're slow learners. > > Kirk > > -- > > Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility > e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario > phone: (519) 661-3061 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
