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Sat Oct 27 17:20:33 PDT 2007

Brett wrote:

> Kurt Wall wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 02:34:11AM -0700, Brett wrote:
>>  
>>> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
>>> <html>
>>> <head>
>>> </head>
>>> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
>>> <font face="Bitstream Vera Sans">Am I posting?</font><br>
>>> <div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
>>>     
>>
>> Yes, in HTML. Which I suggest you disable unless you want to be flamed
>> to a crisp.
>>
>> Kurt

 > whats the difference? and why not html? and what makes you think I
 > know
 > the difference? and why wouldn't you be more helpful and maybe make a
 > suggestin instaed of just saying I am going to be flamed?

<snip>

I think Kurt was trying to make a little bit of a joke about being 
flamed and he just forgot to put the smiley face at the end of his post, 
didn't you, Kurt?  <g>.  There are a couple of things that the 
old-timers have found is pretty useful and considered standard on the 
list.  One of the first things is that we try to insist on plain-text 
for e-mails, partly because it takes up less bandwidth, but partly 
because html is a common way to transmit virus-like things on Windows 
mail clients.  While this is not so much an issue for linux, it has 
certainly become the standard on most linux lists.
The second is that we request that you bottom-post (replies go at the 
bottom of the previous message) because it is very important for the 
purposes of threading in the archives and makes the flow of commentary 
work better.

Welcome to the list!

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