[Rant] html-style email, length of posted messages etc.

[Birgitt Funk <birgitt@minivend.com>]

******    message to minivend-users from Birgitt Funk <birgitt@minivend.com>     ******




Hi,
 
My only comment to this subject.
 
Here you go:
 
>minivend-users wrote:
> 
>Thanks again all who answered. This is a great list!
>Rob
> 

Agreed, this list is going to be great, but at the same moment in
danger of going down the drain. 

> 
> ******    message to minivend-users from "Rob Zimmerman"
> <rob@readysite.net>     	******
>  
> I MUST jump in here.... and this is my only comment..... ;-\ ....he
> sent 2 messages that had THREE IMAGES attached!!! That was the problem!
> And frankly I was quite surprised. 3rd time and its >dev null on my box
> for all his msgs.
>
> Nothing wrong with txt mail readers....its mail! not www..... I am
> partial to Pegasus....probably the same reason I like Minivend......
> 	
> Rob
> 	 

Agreed.
 
Whatever mail reader one uses, you can disable default html-style
sending of messages within a second. Everyone who has not the courtesy
to turn it off in a list like this one deserves to be sent to ... 
 
> message from Barry Treahy:

> If you insist on using an ASCII text only reader, that is your
> choice but you  should shut-up because that is no different that a lynx
> person crying about the fact that he cannot browse or transact commerce sites on the
> Internet any longer...  That is why were are on this list right?  Commerce?  I
> would bet that there is not a single person here that is
> constructing a website  with concern to Lynx compatibility.  We're
> probably more concerned about the headaches associated with IE 5!
> </FLAME>
> 

You might be the person who will get a lot of headaches one day. 8-) You
are wrong. There are still lots of persons who do consider Lynx
compatibility. 
 
And there are lots of people who have some other motivations to be on
this list than searching for the last buck out of every freaking
shopowner...and who don't bother too much about the latest IE toys from
overly smart GUI interface designers who haven't outgrown their ... 

> > message from John Griffin:

> > 
> > Also, Consider not everyone in the world lives in the USA where technology
> > is prevelant. If you develop commercially on the web and think everyone has
> > cable modems, DSL or T1 access you're crazy. Most of the world still use
> > modems and many have to pay for every precious minute of access time on the
> > net and you can't change that fact.
> > 
> 
> 

Right, I know both sides. Had all the nicest things in the US for
amazingly little money, shared T1, no data-transfer limits which could
ever been reached realistically by one shopping site, no measured
time-units for being online, ONE flat fee for 7d/24h at almost no costs.
Try to do the same thing in Germany ... 8-) Hope you find some dimes left
in your pockets after it's done 8-).

 
And as we are at it. There is something like [snip]. Would be nice if
you would be polite enough to snip away ALL superflous stuff when
answering to someone's post. I am going systematically through the
archives for documentation purposes and I can tell you that if
you print out a typical digest it has around twenty pages each time
and may be TWO pages of worthwhile answers. Right now we are at a rate of
almost two digests per day. 

It's a waste of paper, waste of bandwidth, cost me money to download,
costs me time to trim it, costs me money in paper, costs me money in
ink-cartridges for my printer, has develish impact on my eye sight and
more on my emotional well being. 8-). 
 
Do we really need to read thirty times per digest how to unsubscribe
from this list ?

Do we really need to read twenty times the same original text of the
person who posted a question or comment ?

It's a pity if that would continue. The list just starts to be very
good, as there are regular knowledgable posters here now, who help out
regularly, post code snippets and enhance the experience of using and
dealing wiht MiniVend greatly.
 
Please edit your posts to an easy readable size and style.
 
Thanks.
 
Birgitt Funk
 


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