Comments on: Mailing lists moved.

By: Paul Tomblin

Paul Tomblin — Sat, 21 May 2005 14:34:58 +0000

When I rule the world, PowerPoint users will be put to death, and anybody sending email that isn’t plain text will be barred from using email for one year for the first offence, two years for the second, and so on.

By: Barry Price

Barry Price — Sat, 21 May 2005 14:33:03 +0000

When I rule the world, PowerPoint attachments will be stripped completely, and Word attachments will be automagically converted into email body (plain) text.

By: Paul Tomblin

Paul Tomblin — Fri, 20 May 2005 23:15:55 +0000

Two points, Barry:

1. The archives for the lists I run were only 534M, but I didn’t want to give up the space when I could use it for better stuff. And one of the lists Vicki runs is full of people who send power point and word documents for no apparent reason.

2. Yeah, the style sheet isn’t perfect, but I didn’t write it. But I might take the hint and get rid of align:justify.

By: Barry Price

Barry Price — Fri, 20 May 2005 23:00:53 +0000

Best of luck for the move, I hope it’s as stress-free as possible. Can’t believe your mailing list archives took up 3Gb though… that’s a lot of text.

The above text, however, is unfortunately a tremendous example of why align:justify is not always a good thing…