[H-GEN] compiling kernel

James McPherson jmcp at fodder.Aus.Sun.COM
Wed Jun 20 01:17:00 EDT 2001


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On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Ewan Edwards wrote:

> Don't ya just hate email clients that aren't smart enough to send plain text
> messages, but instead fill them full of HTML tags making them almost
> impossible to read.
> There is enough crap on the internet as it is without unnecessary HTML tags
> being added to everything.  Not to mention unnecessary email replies like this
> one.  ;-)

Hmm, don't you just hate it when pine and vi translate a plain text message 
into html without even letting you know that they did so. When I write html
I do so for a specific reason - web pages only.

I send plain text. I do not send html.

In case you are interested, here are the headers from my cc file for the earlier
message:

------begin-------
>From jmcp at fodder.Aus.Sun.COM Wed Jun 20 13:53:02 2001 +1000
Status: 
X-Status: 
X-Keywords:
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 13:53:01 +1000 (EST)
From: James McPherson <jmcp at fodder.Aus.Sun.COM>
To: general at lists.humbug.org.au
cc: mbodman at austereo.com.au
Subject: Re: [H-GEN] compiling kernel
In-Reply-To: <3B300C33.227C1644 at austereo.com.au>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0106201349410.1642-100000 at fodder.Aus.Sun.COM>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
-------end-------


I don't see any evidence that pine translated my plain text.

James C. McPherson

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