On Tue, 6 Jan 1998 18:26:53 -0500, in message:
<[log in to unmask]>, David
Mayerlen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  Thanks for all of the responses. I too am a pine user. I must admit that
> the only people that I know who are using these text-only email readers
> are programmers and sys-admins and old-time internet folks. It really
> doesn't matter what we think, it's up to Joe public. I managed to convince
> my client to avoid colour for now!

        Let me see, Progamer: Check, SysAdmin: Check, Old-Time
Internet Folk: Check, yep you've sure got me pinned down, oh right and
Pine user: Check...  No it doesn't matter much what we think, but if
we start sending nasty letters to people who's mail is formatted
poorly, it is highly likely that we will get much less of that than we
are curently getting.  Kind of like spam, deal with it properly and
you will get a much reduced load of spam.  My feeling is that the
people who are subscribed to SPAM-L (on the lsoft page), for the most
part seem to be doing a rather poor job of reducing their own spam.
Their ideas are truely amazing, but it seems that those who practice
them get more spam than those who will simply delete the vast majority
of the spam they get.

>  My final statement here opens up an interesting debate to which I think
> most of you might have a hard time arguing against.
>
>    I'd rather waste bandwidth than cut down more trees!

        I'm not sure. A lot of resources go into the transporting and
storage of e-mail, yes it is probably preferable to use e-mail to
transmit something than to mail it out, but I would have to say that I
would much rather not waste resources, but use them wisely...
Regardless of what the resource is...


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