[mythtv-users] Meta: PLEASE trim posts !

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 02:50:37PM -0700, Scott Alfter wrote:
> While it doesn't address the wasted bandwidth incurred by the schmucks sending 
> HTML mail (to say nothing about the additional wastage caused by top-posting), 
> at least Thunderbird has a menu option to view everything as plain-text:
> 
> View -> Message Body As -> Plain Text
> 
> That gets rid of people's horrid color/font choices and puts you back in 
> control of the appearance of incoming email.

For those who didn't realize that was a bad idea, and now want to go
back to participating in the wonderful 7-bit ASCII world of RFC-2822
email, let me point you to 

		http://expita.com/nomime.html

which will be happy to explain to you how to turn off outgoing HTML on
your email, so you will piss off fewer people on mailing lists and
contribute less to the flood of bytes.

Cheers,
-- jr 'just one of the many convenient services I offer' a
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