-=PCTechTalk=- Re: aol problems
- From: "Wyatt M. Portendt" <nunyabidness6@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:34:16 -0600
Your opinion and you are entitled to it. When I was on dialup, HTML mail
prevented me from joining a mailing list with hundreds of messages a day.
It was all that was available and *any* extended download would disconnect
before I was finished - meaning I had to start all over again. There are
many in the world (the internet *is* global, last I heard) who only have
dialup IF they have their own computer and access and even if they do they
*still* may have to pay per minute charges to download a bunch of that
pretty "exciting" stuff that you enjoy so much that they and others view as
unnecessary crap.
Your five years, whether due to luck or skill is admirable, but it can be
countered (probably) incident to incident with others of the same amount of
experience who have been totally infected and had their system crashed by
a virus that could only have been delivered through HTML mail.
I believe that your tone leaves much to be desired. I was merely pointing
out that there is an alternative that is inherently safer and more
efficient. If you argue that, then you are obviously not well educated on
the difference in the way HTML mail and true text mail work. You may
prefer HTML, but those are the facts. I am offended by your insinuation
that I am "screwed tight" just because I offer an alternative for
information purposes. I thought that's why we are here.
Send your mail HTML only if you wish. Myself and others may be annoyed,
may not care or may not even read or download your mail at all. Then all
that pretty and exciting content will be garbage, which isn't particularly
attractive and is a nuisance.
In the future, choose your words more carefully and try hard not to poke
fun at ideas rather than debate them on their merits. No matter what
format the mail comes in, no one likes a wise-ass.
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On 1/21/2003 at 10:09 PM a whisper was heard, and the one known as
Clickninny@xxxxxxx was rumoured to have uttered....
| On 1/19/2003 at 5:55 AM a whisper was heard, and
| the one known as
| Foxhillers@xxxxxxx was rumoured to have uttered....
|
| | It sounds like he has his email set up to NOT
| | receive html email. He
| | needs to change that.
| | mjh
|
| ===========================================================
|
| In a message dated 1/21/2003 6:44:11 PM Eastern Standard Time,
| nunyabidness6@xxxxxxxxx writes:
|
|
| > Many who value security over wasted bandwidth and bloated
| messages that may
| > or may not be more pleasing to the eye would disagree. HTML
| mail is
| > wasteful, insecure, and doesn't (in the opinion of some) add
| anything to
| > the content. Many, including myself, prevent virii and
| extra download
| > times by NOT accepting HTML only messages.
| >
| =============================================================
|
|
| Many who value fun and visual excitement from LIFE
| regardless of whatever
| the hell your bandwidth is would disagree with you as well. (
| i say that with
| all the sweetness of Mahatma Gandi on after a fat one )
| HTML mail is exciting , and a much easier form of
| expression for those
| who enjoy more visual excitment from life then reading items
| with all the
| visual appeal of a parking ticket or wall street journal stock
| quote. (
| scratch that ...a parking ticket DOES have more visual appeal
| then a plain
| text email )
|
| Thats why there is an emoticon for practically every word
| in the english
| language in the cyber world these days.
|
| By percentages ...it is no more insecure than walking
| out your door and
| happening to collide with a flu bug bouncing up your nostril
| from an errant
| sneeze down the block. If you would be srcewed so tight as to
| not enjoy ALL
| any form of communication has to offer ( in the opinion of
| some ) ...it would
| be the equivilent of never leaving your house without a
| kerchief in front of
| your nose.
|
| Many including myself view, read, download, and save entire
| web pages of
| HTML with no ill effects whatsoever on a daily basis. In 5
| years on the net i
| have gotton one virus that was easily taken care of thru the
| knowledge
| databse at Symantec...and a slew of ( admittedly obnoxious )
| spyware crap
| which was just as painlessly removed thanx to the big hearts
| at Lavasoft.
|
| We all must clean a bug from our winshield occasionally
| ...but that should
| not stop us from enjoying the view ...rather than continually
| scrutinizing
| the winshield for further bug spatter.
| In any case ...that is WHY you have anti viral ....and
| anti spy/ad ware
| on your system in the first place.
|
| This has been a contrary viewpoint and opinion to abolish
| unnecessary
| apprehension in the world by clickninny. ...and no offense to
| Nunyabidness's
| viewpoint.
|
|
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| If you go through life convinced that your way is always the
| best,
| all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
| -Akio Morita- <A HREF="http://a.ka/";>a.ka</A>.
| Founder of SONY
|
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