Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1998 23:30:57 -0500
Reply-To:     -Chip <Shaner@FAMENT.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         -Chip <Shaner@FAMENT.COM>
Subject:      Re: winmail.dat - no VW content
Comments: To: Austin <austins@IX.NETCOM.COM>, vanagon@vanagon.com
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Well as long as I am feeling opinionated tonight I will throw in my
$.02. The list Admins should nip this in the butt right now. There are
lots of folks who read off Unix or cannot convert this. Even some of the
other non-ascii formats need converted, and I usually delete them
without reading. IT is NOT that hard to configure your mailer to send in
plain old ASCII.


If you are thinking "well they won't see my pretty colors and fonts".
Guess what, we aren't right now either.

This is a waste of bandwith and time. Not only that but the sender risks
the chance that the one person that knows the answer to their questions
can't or won't convert their MIME stuff.

It is to everyones advantage to be uniform in mailing formats here.

Whew! Now that I got that off my chest, I will be happy to help anyone
that wants it to fix their mailing program. I have e-mail, ICQ, Yahoo
pager, and even a telephone to use in helping those that want it. :)

"I am not an ogre!, I swear it!!"

--
Chip Shaner
5 kids and counting.....
ICQ# 14983821
http://www.fament.com/chip/vw/vw.html  - The Un-named VW page