Thunderbird Address Book feature next to useless

[David Bandel]

On 29 Oct 2004 21:41:25 -0400, burns <linux at burnsmacdonald.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 19:36, Kurt Wall wrote:
> 
> >
> > .sig files are places for individual expression, IMHO. I don't trouble with
> > vcards. But that's just me.
> >
> 
> 
> 'Back in the day,' purists were in the majority and were pretty fussy
> about how you structured sigs and how much space you took up. Flame wars
> often erupted over such small scale electronic nitpicking. Most folks
> tried to include a witty or obtusely humorous one-liner. It was heresy
> to include blank lines, ascii drawings were for newbies, and very large
> ascii drawings were cause for ostracization.

sigs should be no more than 4 lines long.  And only the truly clueless
put those absurd, humorless, and completely useless 60+ line legal
stupidity on messages.

> 
> Small content differences like this actually made a difference - most of
> the folks on this list can probably recall downloading through manually
> initiated sockets, over a 4800 baud modem. An unobtainable dream was to
> have a 64k ISDN line.

There are still folks on dial-up.  Perhaps not in the states, but in
large portions of the world, even dial-up is difficult to obtain.  But
regardless, just because I have a 512k or 2Mb line, why do folks feel
the need to fill it with garbage (like HTML, which is still in poor
taste, or any proprietary, non-ascii crap)?  A V-card is not a digital
signature.  Send people to a web page.  I realize no one uses .plan,
etc., files anymore (hell Windows lusers don't have them and can't
read them anyway).  But V-cards are just inappropriate (like the
moronic legal disclaimers).

> 
> AISTR Vcards were introduced more recently by the business community (or
> those attempting to cater to it) as an electronic business card, that
> could be paperclipped virtually to a number of files and types of
> correspondance.

The "business community" being Microsoft?  And what is this
"paperclipped" nonsense?

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
-- 
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