Re: [Sheflug] Re: Re: My First Post

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Chris" == Chris J/#6 <sixie [at] nccnet.co.uk> writes:

    Chris> Outlook formats the email to HTML by default, which is a
    Chris> known and continued annoyance with a lot of people

Yeah, there are known solutions to this for decent mailers, which
leaves out the K* and G* "flash 'n' trash" families, of course.  I
believe that Gnus and VM will strip out the unwanted parts before
saving for you, and you can probably trick IMAP servers into doing it.

    Chris> at least hald the disk space, if you keep old email, is
    Chris> wasted.

Actually, more like 2/3, because there's the overhead of MIME
multipart/alternative plus all the HTML overhead.  And they'll
probably start supporting Word-style HTML, at which point it'll be 90%
waste.

    Chris> Slackware - this tends to hold a version or two back and
    Chris> isn't as cutting edge as SuSE or RH. I don't know what the
    Chris> Slack 7 installer is like; I've got it here on CD but yet
    Chris> to install it (to replace by SuSE dist).

AFAIK Slack is still pretty user-unfriendly.  Haven't used it
recently, but everybody I know who does use it is an "ancient Hacker"
type who hates RPMs.

    Chris> Debian - I get the impression Debian tends to go through
    Chris> more regression testing than other dists,

Debian has a strong policy of not patching the upstream release (back
when I was using "stable", most bugs I encountered were introduced by
Debian bug fixes; you can imagine what adding features would
do---introduce the most recent upstream bugs, a few more of Debian's,
and fix nothing).

I doubt Debian does much regression testing itself, but the slow
release cycle allows the "many eyes" of the general community to weed
out the bugs in the upstream packages.


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