Text thrift may indeed be a virtue, but in this day of mpeg, jpeg, streaming
video, mp3, internet radio and multi-gigabyte hard drives; our puny little
emails must be a drop in the proverbial bit-bucket. (My wife is on several
lists that allow jpeg file attachments/inserts.) Does autox.team.net really
need to be so frugal? Perhaps the server, this list is on, has severe
storage limitations. (Just a comment, please don't take it as flame bait.)
Bob Donahue (Still stuck in the '50s)
Email - bobmgtd@insightbb.com
52 MGTD - NEMGTR #11470
71 MGB - NAMGBR #7-3336
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Root" <proot@iaces.com>
To: "Bullwinkle" <yd3@nvc.net>
Cc: "mgs" <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 2:34 AM
Subject: Re: Not LBC, but related to MG email lists and the internet
> Bullwinkle wrote:
>
> >1) Set your email composer to send in text only except
> >where needed.
> >
> Scott McNeally (Sun) had a great comment on this 5+ years ago. He compared
> a overblown Microsoft email message with fonts and colors and a text
message
> something like : "Let's hvae lunch" spelled incorrectly on purpose to
> show just
> how much computing power is wasted.
>
> And the part about only quoting what you need too, the old News readers
> for (CNews and INN) would inforce that you typed more than you quoted.
>
> One other point to make is to minimize cross posting.
>
> >Now if we could just get rid of the spamming mail, that
> >would make the biggest difference with regards to email.
> >
> I installed Spamassassin last week on FreeBSD and integrated it into my
> procmail filters. I went from 100+ spam messages getting past my home
> grown filters in a week to 2 since Sunday. I think I read in the sparse
doco
> that it has Windows availablity.
>
>
> It even caught Jeff Zorn's (LBCarCo) spam. :-) I fixed the config to let
> that
> through.
>
> Paul.
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