Re: Admin stuff (was: Re: Kodak & line breaks

[dshomer <dshomer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Boy, you can really tell when people are not shooting film.  They're
sitting home nit-picking about e-mail "netiquette".  Give it a rest.  Is
it really hard to scroll back and forth.  Let's get some photography
talk going here and stop worrying about everybody's computer
capabilities.    



Willem-Jan Markerink wrote:
> 
> On  9 Mar 00 at 20:04, James Romeo wrote:
> 
> > The first one who complained sent me a email that it was a problem in his computer. I have said a number of times I DO NOT HAVE A COMPUTER *********  I use a iopener it is for email and the web. All
> > I can use it for is EMAIL and WEB. I plug it in the phone line trun on the iopener and that is that. All soft ware and control is with Netpliance if enyone wants to know more go to www.iopener.net.
> > ts great I like it and email all over the world.
> 
> But your lines *are* too long, whether you can change settings or
> not. And you *are* using a computer....there's more than just PC's &
> workstations....;-))
> And if that causes problems with other mailers (mine has optional
> line-wrap when reading, but not when replying (Pegasus/WinPmail)),
> then the program you use is buggy. Plain and simple.
> Whether it's a significant problem is another case, but I have seen
> mails in the past with such long lines that it a) crashed my
> news-editor, and b) caused missing letters after I wrapped it.
> 
> We don't accept the buggy HTML-coding from Microsoft & Co in email
> either (I just updated the Majordomo-settings btw, neither HTML nor
> subject-headers with 'Infrared-Digest V #xxx' will pass to the list
> from now on).
> 
> I won't force you to use a different mailclient, but fact remains
> that it simply does not comply with Netiquette....it might be great,
> but definately not perfect, and the mistake is *not* with other
> people.
> Sorry to be so harsh, not every gimmick is a blessing to the
> Net....;-))
> 
> --
> Bye,
> 
> Willem-Jan Markerink
> 
>       The desire to understand
> is sometimes far less intelligent than
>      the inability to understand
> 
> <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>
> [note: 'a-one' & 'en-el'!]
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