Re: Email signature

From: Bruno LEVEQUE <bruno(dot)leveque(at)net6d(dot)com>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Aleksander Kmetec <aleksander(dot)kmetec(at)intera(dot)si>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Email signature
Date: 2003-11-14 17:05:55
Message-ID: 3FB50B73.8060104@net6d.com
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Hi,

Sorry Joshua, but syst. eng. hate html e-mail too. (at least some of
them;-))

In fact I think there people who don't know there is the choice (only
html for them. "There is another solution in oulook ?" ) and others.

Bruno

Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> Hello,
>
> It is my experience that it is only us geeks (read programmers) that
> really hate html email. The majority of
> people out there don't know or care about the difference.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua Drake
>
>
> Justin Clift wrote:
>
>> Hi Aleksander,
>>
>> Yep, there's no professional IT person that I know of that uses HTML
>> email. Most consider it *rude* to be sent HTML email, or that the
>> person sending it was clueless (or made a mistake in their settings
>> somehow).
>>
>> Regards and best wishes,
>>
>> Justin Clift
>>
>>
>> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Aleksander,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I understend your concerns, but looking through my inbox I can see
>>>>> that
>>>>> everyone, except a small number of fellow programmers, is using
>>>>> html format
>>>>> for sending messges. It seems to be the standard here and plaintext
>>>>> messages are pretty much out of the question for business
>>>>> communication.
>>>>> I'm not kidding - sometimes I even get asked why I keep replying in
>>>>> plaintext! :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ok, different from here, then. In California, plaintext is still the
>>>> standard for anything but advertisements.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Same here ... my spam filters pick up nicely on HTML email and
>>> shuffle it
>>> off to where its supposed to ... no mans land :)
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------------------------(end of
>>> broadcast)---------------------------
>>> TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate
>>> subscribe-nomail command to majordomo(at)postgresql(dot)org so that your
>>> message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
>> TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if
>> your
>> joining column's datatypes do not match
>
>
>

--
Bruno LEVEQUE
System Engineer
SARL NET6D
bruno(dot)leveque(at)net6d(dot)com
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