[MR] irritant!!!

[BATCOK at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/19/2001 9:25:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
wulfhafdan at yahoo.com writes:


> I hope the spaces I added to the above cause it to show up on the
> computers of those people that mindlessly ignore the convention that
> posts to this list be IN TEXT FORMAT ONLY the same way as those of us
> that abide by this convention see it.  I also hope it irritates them as
> much as it does us! I am not intending to single any one persons out, I
> just took a random mailing and deleted the correctly formated postings.
> My apologies to those whose postings were used as an example - this is
> not intended as a personal attack.  Please note that buried in all the
> extraneous crap of message #4 is simply a 14 word sentance and a short
> URL.
>     This stuff really does tend to put the 'mess' in the word
> 'message'.  It also detracts from what you are trying to say and thus
> dilutes the import of your posting (sadly, most of the postings of this
> nature are of valuable content from intelligent educated people too). 
> If you don't know how to set your computer to send a text only mailing
> please do the rest of us a favor and refrain from posting until you
> have sought and found some assistance - as a last resort I might
> suggest a private mailing to the listmaster (sorry to dump that on you
> but it's begining to get to where it seems like 2/5 of the postings are
> in mime/html format.
> 
> now I've thrown out this two cents worth, I'll go back to lurking...
> 
> 'wulf };-} 
> 

Sorry to point this out to you Wulf, but by following all that "HTML crap" 
with your remarks, you have just sent a message to the list in HTML...just as 
you admonished others about doing.  

It sure is hard to control something you have no control over.

Mike B.

Who suffers AoHell for it's other features and is not going to stop.  But I 
will say that people don't complain when I use a setting of 10 point Arial 
for my messages.

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