Date   : Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:38:38 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: 8-bit Articles wanted for next issue of Drag 'n Drop

On 29/09/2010 17:04, J.G.Harston wrote:

> files on the local server for me to read at my leisure. I'm fed up
> having to add more and more and more and more and more and more and
> more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more
> code to the mail debatcher because of brain-dead idiots out there
> sending mangles messages.

I am likely to take that issue with my MailCheck script. It's a tight 
little bit of PHP (could be tighter) which I can imagine easily 
QUADRUPLING if I had to implement code for the variety of cack you get 
in emails.


> Now I just consider mangles messages to be a subclass of SPAM, and
> wipe them before reading. If you want me to lower myself to reading
> your emails, do me the curtesy of emailing me properly.

:-) We so completely disagreed on file extensions, but here we so 
completely agree. I really with the IETF would mandate that port 110 is 
for plaintext messages only (with allowable in-line MIME like "£" for 
unusual characters).
Actually, the damage has been done. Can we have a new port for plaintext 
email? No base64, no HTML...


> Takes just as long to read text on a BBC as on anything else. It
> only goes through my eyes at a speed set by my own biology, nothing
> technological is going to change that.

ROFTL!


Best wishes,

Rick.

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