Not really, but those of us who use text based email clients due to their
speed and efficiency hate wading through the extra garbage.  I can blow
through a hundred list messages with Pine in a few minutes.  I use Outlook
for other mail, but never for the list -- it's just too inefficient.
Engineers hate inefficient things.  It also sucks up far too much
bandwidth when the extra formatting stuff has to be reproduced for every
single list subscriber.

What really toasts me, though, is not using the right topic tag so not
only does everyone see an OT post, but now half a dozen will probably
respond, just adding to the problem.  **PLEASE** tag things like this as
OT (not picking on Nick, there are plenty more where he came from).

Thanks,
Dale
--
"Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that
curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly."
          - Arnold Edinborough


On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Nick Veys wrote:

> <sarcasm>
>
> Them old engineers tend to freak out at new fangled technologies like
> HTML and Rich Text formatted email! :)
>
> </sarcasm>

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