[NCLUG] HTML E-mails. . .

Jeff fetushead at home.com
Sun Apr 22 12:02:47 MDT 2001


I agree wholeheartedly.  In this case, I was using a bad e-mail client from
a bad company (hotmail and Microsoft) and didn't think twice about it.
Sorry if I caused anyone any unnecessary stress.  : )
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Clarke" <clarke at clarkecomputer.com>
To: <nclug at nclug.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2001 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: [NCLUG] HTML E-mails. . .


> As someone else who tries to avoid HTML emails and prefers links from
> unknown persons(and from known persons also, but I'm more likely to check
> it out from them) to include a description of what it is so I know before
> I go to the trouble of looking at it, I think it is a reasonable
> assumption that a link you without a description or a meaningful URL
> (which I know Jeff isn't responsible for) is spam that may start pop-up
> windows like crazy.
>
> charles
>
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Quent wrote:
>
> > Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:50:06 -0600
> > From: Quent <quent at pobox.com>
> > Reply-To: nclug at nclug.org
> > To: nclug at nclug.org
> > Subject: Re: [NCLUG] HTML E-mails. . .
> >
> > Sorry, no offense intended :)
> >
> > My client actually can read html I just don't by default since spammers,
> > and I don't mean you now :), use the hit on their web page as data and
> > other purposes.
> >
> > Oh, on Linux games: Q3 Arena rocks! I bought it and became addicted.
> >
> > Again, sorry for my not so well thought out messages.
> >
> > Quent
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 01:26:56PM -0700, ELIZONDO,JEFF
(HP-Loveland,ex1) wrote:
> > > No, "this guy" is not a spammer, but thanks for the insult.  It
appears that
> > > hotmail has begun to use an html editor as its default mail composer.
It
> > > used to use plain text. . .At any rate, I'll stop sending e-mail from
that
> > > account so that all of you can actually read what I'm saying.
> > >
> > > I got the URL about the games from Slashdot.  Since I like to play a
lot of
> > > games and am forced to dual boot Windows as a result, I thought It
might be
> > > cool to see if anyone else was interested in this alternative.  It
brings up
> > > some interesting questions regarding OpenGL, MESA and the like in
Linux. . .
> > >
> > > Cheers and apologies for the stupid hotmail mixup,
> > >
> > > Jeff
> > >
> > > P.s.  Quent, your e-mail regarding your e-mail client not being able
to read
> > > HTML didn't exactly illicit a response. . .
> > >
> > > Jeff Elizondo
> > > Resource Engineer
> > > Loveland Customer Care Center
> > > mailto:jeff_elizondo at hp.com
> > >
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