Well said Loris and Tom in both of your posts on the "way the lists work".
Maybe we are still trying to compare apples, oranges,& watermelon. They are
all fruit but very different in taste and function. I prefer to have the
choice to view a link or not view it.
-- Take Care, Chuck -May your troubles be less, your blessings more, and nothing but happiness comes through your door- ---------------------- Original Message: --------------------- From: "Loris Medici" <loris_medici@mynet.com> To: <pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org> Subject: RE: [pinhole-discussion] attatched photos Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 06:27:04 +0000 > A very basic and subjective answer: Because I don't want to wait in > order to receive (and take the trouble to delete it later - to save disk > space and to keep my mailbox compact - it's already > 2Gb!!) any number > of images that "I haven't requested" and/or "I may not particularly care > about"... > > Text based list format is nice; it's compact and neat. Most importantly, > I have the choice to read mail with the color and fonts "I have > chosen"... (I'm often annoyed to read mail written in - let's say - 16 > points, bold, pink, comic font ect. Yes I'm exaggerating here but you > got the idea...) Read this as I'm also opposing to HTML mail format. > (Unless it's used in a reasonable way.) > > To me, it's not a technical problem (for many of us - but there could be > a significant number of people who also has technical problems with this > practice), it's more a netiquette / good manners / ethics problem. > > Regards, > Loris. > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org > [mailto:owner-pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org] On Behalf Of Ellis Cory > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 12:08 AM > To: pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org > Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] attatched photos > > ... > > No-one has yet answered my basic > question, if attachments can be sent on other sites and all the > 'problems' > raised here are not problems on those sites, why not have attachments > here ? ATB > Ellis > _______________________________________________ > Post to the list as PLAIN TEXT only - no HTML > pinhole-discussion mailing list > pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org > FAQ at http://spitbite.org/pinhole-discussion/list.html _______________________________________________ Post to the list as PLAIN TEXT only - no HTML pinhole-discussion mailing list pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org FAQ at http://spitbite.org/pinhole-discussion/list.htmlReceived on Tue Sep 4 04:28:25 2007
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