Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 11:25:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Randall R Schulz cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: re. problem report: gawk 3.1.1 In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020911080919.01fb7e60@pop3.cris.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Granted. But it's harder to ignore a flashing gif or html advertizement than it is to ignore a bit of text (especially in the signature). Igor On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Randall R Schulz wrote: > Nicolas, > > There are those who find it rude to allow advertisements to be injected > into your mail so that you can think of it as "free." > > Randall Schulz > Mountain View, CA USA > > > At 08:01 2002-09-10, you wrote: > > >... > > > >Well that's great if you can *use* procmail, but as you can see I use > >yahoo mail. So unless I fork out $29/yr, I have to read my mail > >through their web interface. I think the point needs to be > >reiterated that sending HTML/M$MimeOLE encoded mail to a public list > >is just downright RUDE. Not only that, but as the previous poster > >stated, it screws up Mozilla. > > > >Cheers, > >Nicholas > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! It took the computational power of three Commodore 64s to fly to the moon. It takes a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here. -- SC sig file -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/