Fortunately, this doesn't appply to me anymore since I got broadband. But, you know, hardware modems are not exactly cheap. Yes, there are some gnu/linux drivers for windows modems, but not everyone has a supported modem. So, if you'd like people on this list to be using pine, mutt, ETC. for their mail, take into consideration the fact that not everyone here can aford a new modem, or an expensive broadband connection. Greg On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 07:20:50AM -0500, Brian Borowski wrote: > I guess this has been discussed bofore, but I can't help doing it again. > Why do so many people use outlook and other Windows utilities to post to > this list? It's understandable if you're a new user, but doing it for a > year or two, makes me wonder; if you're a Windows user and never want to > use linux to do your stuff; get off the list, and stop polluting it with > crap. If you're a windows user, and insist on posting (especially for > some of those high-volume posters), then change your settings so that we > don't have to se a couple of Kbytes of header, and shut off the damn html > repeat of your message that shows up at the end. It may come as a big > surprise to some people, but when us people who use pine and other mail > readers have to go through hundreds of messages; we don't want to see > (hear) all that garbage; it's a nuisance, and it slows us down terribly, > just trying to get through the list. > > Also, I'm in complete agreement with the complaints about including > messages including messages, including messages within eachother until > things get huge; it's a waste of bandwidth, and time. I also notice, that > some users seem to post multiple copies of their messages; please, have > pity on us who read our mail? While I'm complaining: > Why do people include 50 or 100 lines of others messages, and then put > their one line comment about it right at the end of all that stuff? My > advice, is that if you're going to include all that stuff, and have five or > ten words to say about; why not put your comment at the top, and save us > all that reading through stuff we've probably already seen before so many > times? > > Brian Borowski > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
