[mythtv-users] A General Directions Question

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Sun Jul 6 17:22:12 UTC 2008


On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 05:44:18PM -0400, steve wrote:
> Im sure some people (like me) use the same email account for everything.
> I find it a pain to keep switching back and forth between html mail when
> I have something I want to forward someone else or send something to
> someone thats a say a picture or graphics and not to a mailing list.  Im
> completely guessing here, but probably close ..99% of the world uses
> html mail and the small majority like mailing lists that do not, its a
> problem. (ive learned to deal with it) I agree that when posting to
> lists it should be text, but I sometimes too forget what I am configured
> to send as html because I switch back and forth many times a day.

I would posit that, of the non-spam mail in the world, more than 50% of
it -- by individual message count -- is mailing list mail.

So, no, probably not 99%.

And aside from that, HTML mail is *bad*, on so many levels.

	http://www.expita.com/nomime.html

Cheers,
-- jra
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