Thank you for enlightening me. My main source of information about the
telecoms in the rest of the world comes from regular reading of The
Economist (note - no rich text italics or underlining) which has led me to
believe that deregulation has lowered costs. Apparently, not enough. I
guess this is just one more indication that my ancestors were right to make
tea in Boston Harbor :-) since most of us here have flat rate dial-up
service to our ISPs, or always on DSL, cable, or satellite connections.
And, I guess I'd better not suggest that the rest of you vote the rascals
out of office when WE can't even vote one rascal INTO office!
Best regards,
Rob Housman
(living in California, not Florida)
-----Original Message-----
On Behalf Of Sweeting Paul
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 9:26 AM
Subject: RE: plain text text
The majordomo system will usually deal wich enriched mail messages.
Its actually problem with space and bandwidth, an html message with fancy
logos and fonts can be several times the size of a plain text message, thus
requiring more resources in the form of Increased disk space utilised at
server as well as on the members pc and increased time required for messages
to passed through.
It's also curtious to members (usually outside of United States) whom have
to pay for calls to ISP's,
i.e. 30 enriched messages may take a minute each, which means 30 minutes of
phone bill, where as the like in plain text this would take approx 5 mins.
Its also less frustrating to wait 5 mins rather than 30mins....
cheers
Paul Sweeting
-----Original Message-----
Subject: RE: plain text text
With all this fuss about plain text messages I am getting a bit curious as
to the reason for the fuss. With full featured browsers and e-mail clients
available for free, is anyone actually using an e-mail client that can not
read rich text? Or, is the problem with the Europa List server being unable
to accommodate rich text?
Best regards,
Rob Housman
A070
-----Original Message-----
On Behalf Of Bob.Harrison
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 1:56 AM
Subject: RE: plain text text
Now I know what it is ! I'll try to comply, it's flying 'planes we write
about ,not "flying computers". In any case it's a bloody miracle I got this
far with the thing. It wasn't my message that put the virus question up
anyway. (according to many other people who have advised me that they had no
problem with the same transmission they received.)
Bob Harrison G-PTAG (in plain text ?)
-----Original Message-----
On Behalf Of fkyle
Sent: 12 December 2000 04:08
Subject: plain text text
For heaven's sake, peolple!! Send your valuable advice and your paltry
questions via (yelling here) PLAIN TEXT mode. Choose it now. Save us all a
great deal of time filching fact from pretty colours and yuppie doodles.
I ask this only so Wilma and Rowland (both with a 'w') won't keep bombarding
us with those plaintive sobbings and begging. I'm getting......it's making
me........I'm becoming.......
Yours for Bill Gates' indictment for colouring,
Ferg A064
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