RE: [Pan-users] Re: Pn 0.97 won't start

[Travis]

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Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 13:47
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Subject: [Pan-users] Re: Pn 0.97 won't start

> Duncan said
> 
>> Lenny_Nero <address@hidden> posted
>> address@hidden,
>> excerpted below, on  Fri, 19 May 2006 23:21:00 +0100:
>> 
>>> I think some people who use this (as I do) via gMane forget its a
>>> mail list and not usenet.
>> 
>> Aye, but the same things that apply to HTML news apply to HTML mail,
>> even more so -- web bugs in HTML mail can link mail to IP address for
>> tracing, spammers love the confirmation they get that the mail was
>> viewed, and they can (if they want) then track the IP linked to the
>> email address.  The malware issues are identical, mail or news.  HTML
>> is fine on the web, but keep it out of my mail, and keep it out of
>> my news! 
> 
> I will say it again this is not a newsgroup, you (and I)
> might be reading it via a list to news engine, but its not usenet.
> 
> I understand what you say about HTML, but there are many who
> read this only as a mail list. There are lots of other lists
> I read thru gMane where a very large percentage of the
> contributors no nothing about gMane.
> 
> The Yahoo lists I read here (gMane) cant turn off the HTML
> with the Yahoo list posting tool and that goes for the owners
> of the lists as well.
> 
> L.

The Yahoo groups I belong to allow posting in plain text whether from the
Yahoo web site or from Outlook.

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Travis in Shoreline Washington