Mime [was Tyre (tire) pressures]

[Kneale Brownson]

I have every option I can find on my mailer program (Eudora) set to plain, 
non-MIME, etc., setting.  I'm told by someone more experienced than I (and 
that includes most everyone) that some internet service providers include 
some of what everyone else considers objectionable wastes of bandwidth in 
every message they process.  Is that the reason I'm a "banned" poster as 
far as Phil's concerned?



At 12:46 PM 03/06/2001 +0000, quk at isham-research.freeserve.co.uk wrote:

> >> What e-mail client are you using that lets you italicize the
> >> original message in your reply?  I like the format!
>
> > Good question, it's Microsoft outlook Express for sure, tell me how
> > to find the version and I'll let you know. I just click on the I
> > square as in MS word, (hint, not very computer literate!)
>
>I was online with the Nokia's browser this morning and saw this -
>otherwise it would have been deleted before being read.
>
>I do most sincerely hope that the discussion proceeds from ignorance and
>not the gross discourtesy it seems to be.
>
>We are Dan's guests on these lists.  As such, we are beholden to Dan and
>I believe (others may believe differently) that we should abide by his
>rules.  Those rules are very clearly stated in simple English on the
>Audifans web site:
>
>        "There is no cost for subscribing to the lists, but you
>         must subscribe in order to post a message to the list.
>         This is to prevent spamming from outside parties.
>         Also, messages sent to the list must be in plain text
>         format - no MIME, HTML, image or file attachments."
>
>See what it says?  Even if you have your email client set to post plain
>ASCII, selecting some trivial snick-snack like italics, underlining,
>fonts, etc., will ALWAYS generate a MIME email taking four to five times
>more of Dan's bandwidth than an ASCII text message.
>
>If this proceeds from ignorance, it is discourteous.  If it is done in
>spite of knowing the effects, it is quite breathtaking. You're in good
>(bad) company, though.  This is a recent list of multi-part senders
>stopped by my system:
>
>      DGraber460 at aol.com
>      HAMRENDAN at aol.com
>      JShadzi at aol.com
>      JanDebL at aol.com
>      JordanVw at aol.com
>      KAMMLER1 at aol.com
>      audidudi at mindspring.com
>      julian.stafford at virgin.net
>      kbogach at home.com
>      knotnook at traverse.com
>      quattro at europa.com
>      rmyers at oak.total-web.net
>      smarinello at newpark.com
>      zed123 at telusplanet.net
>
>All are guilty of the same discourtesy to Dan in ignoring the conditions
>of use of the lists - clearly posted on the Audifans web sight.
>
>Maybe quite a few people need Reading Comprehension 101.
>
>And maybe some of the people wasting Dan's bandwidth like this should
>pony up a donation in recompense.
>
>--
>  Phil
>