[delta_v] ship building

[Jamie Kahn Genet]

macmaxbh <macmaxbh at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Note: slight amounts of sarcasm are present in the email. I don't 
> really mean this personally, I'm just annoyed.
> Hmm, I wonder if this is sending in html, that would be funny...
> 
> On Feb 27, 2004, at 10:39 PM, Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
> 
> > Will you pay me to wade through that HTML crap in order to find the
> > single new line of text?
> 
> Amazingly, you don't have to-- look more closely:
[snip rubbish text]
> The first part says that it's a multipart message, and look at the 
> header for the second part. "text/plain"! Exactly what you wanted! 
> Isn't it incredible?
> And then you look at the first line, and it says "build it. Do I have
> to pay you?"  Then comes an email address, and then "Original message",
> so you can ignore the rest of the email.
> 
> If you won't bother to even look at the email or get an email reader 
> that reads html or can convert html to text, then stop complaining.
> 
> macmaxbh

Perhaps you could explain to me the necessity of this crap -

> > --===============053949245619712372== Content-Type:
> > multipart/alternative;
> > boundary="----=_NextPart_000_000E_01C3FD51.4552D2E0"
> >
> > This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
> >
> > ------=_NextPart_000_000E_01C3FD51.4552D2E0 Content-Type: text/plain;
> > charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

- to the message (yes, I know the technical reasons, you know that's not
what I mean)? Does it add something to my understanding of the text? If
it's plain text, WTF does it need to tell me with 8 lines of waste text?
WTF not send _just_ plain text to begin with instead of sending huge
messages with both plain text surrounded by rubbish definition text
_and_ html formatted text?

WTF is the point, aside from pissing off MacSOUP, MailSmith, etc users
and people with modem connections? Do you think the USA is all there is
to net connected people? Not everyone has broadband. Shit, UK users even
have to pay by the minute to use the phone. Will you pay them back their
wasted money and _everyone's_ wasted time downloading multi-part and
HTML email sent to mailing lists and posted to Usenet?

Cause I want my money and time back, please.

Regards,
 Jamie Kahn Genet
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