Re: [Sheflug] Re: Re: My First Post

[Richard Stevenson <nospam [at] team.xtra.co.nz>]

On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> >>>>> "Chris" == Chris J/#6 <sixie [at] nccnet.co.uk> writes:
> 
>     Chris> Outlook formats the email to HTML by default, which is a
>     Chris> known and continued annoyance with a lot of people
> 
> Yeah, there are known solutions to this for decent mailers, which
> leaves out the K* and G* "flash 'n' trash" families, of course.  I
> believe that Gnus and VM will strip out the unwanted parts before
> saving for you, and you can probably trick IMAP servers into doing it.

And if you want a Sendmail ruleset (where $SENDMAIL_VERSION >= 8.9.0) that
will reject multipart/alternative, text/html, text/enriched, and
text/richtext messages during the SMTP conversation, just let me know
:-)  It's great for annoying stupid management types who can't figure out
how to use an email client ;-)

> AFAIK Slack is still pretty user-unfriendly.  Haven't used it
> recently, but everybody I know who does use it is an "ancient Hacker"
> type who hates RPMs.

I made the mistake of installing Slackware on my router at home about 8
months ago.  Now I'm just waiting for a good time to remove it and install
Debian instead...  because I can't be bothered hacking the dialup scripts
to support multiple providers, etc.  And I don't like the way they use a
compiler that's known to mess up some of the kernel code (I've taken to
recompiling damn near everything with my favourite gcc 2.7.2.3 these days
- I can get away with it, I don't have any really new boxen at home).

On the subject of Debian, I find it very similar to my favourite vendor
Unix (Digital, before the morons from Compaq got at it) to use.  Just like
getting into a warm bath :-)

Cheers

R

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