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Re: your subject-less mail



On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 04:05:34 AM -0800, David Beverly (rain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) 
wrote:
> 
> Ignoring the extraneous and self-indulgent 2K+ of X-headers is certainly
> a no-brainer in mutt, but those thousands of bytes still have to be
> downloaded before they can be ignored.  There are still plenty of people
> out there with metered 'Net access.
> 
> Moving an obscenely huge and pointless .sig into the headers to avoid
> censure for ignoring basic netiquette isn't really as clever as you seem
> to think, and hardly counts as a wakeup call to anyone for anything.
> 
> Affected cleverness, while certainly self-serving, rarely serves as
> anything of value.
> 

I was going to make the same comment, almost word by word. Placing that
whole rant (as right as it is in some places) on a web page, and
adding *one* X-header saying something like "Go read this before
anything else" would have been more sensible.

Ciao,
        Marco Fioretti


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