Re: [buffywantswillow] RE: OT: Grrr... Arrgghh.... A rant agianst the new eGroups banner s

[Tater <tater@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:17 PM 8/30/00 +0200, you wrote:
>
>RE: OT: Grrr... Arrgghh.... A rant agianst the new eGroups banners<<< It is
weird, I've been
>noticing banner inconsitancy between all my lists. I'm assuming it is due
to them still trying to
>work the bugs out. Or it might have to due with the format of the email
sent to egroups. If you
>send a HTML format message you get that big ugly picture add, sending text
format messages get the
>slightly smaller one without the pictures.
>
>Chazzman (Just theorizing) >>>
>
>No, you are right there. Messages sent in HTML get a picture banner,
messages sent in plain text,
>get a 4-6 rows large (mostly the latter) text banner. That has always been
so, but because the
>banners were until now on the bottom of the messages, this wasn't that obvious.
>
> Quin (still angry about this)
>
>


I use and old version of Eudora Lite, which will only display messages in
plain text. All I get for any banner is a few lines of text. Makes 'em
easy to ignore. In fact, until this discussion started, I hadn't even
noticed they were banners. Just assumed they were part of the usual gunk I
get whenever anyone sends anything other than plain text. I'm so used to
having to ignore 70% of an email to find the actual message that I didn't
even register them. Now I notice that Quin has been sending messages in
plain text, with no html gunk at all, which means that this gunk that is
there is all commercials. I'd be annoyed, but it's still a tiny amout of
clutter compared to the mass of junk that's in Chazzman's reply post. The
html code garble I got with that sucker is four times as long as the
message. The ads are too small in that to matter.

Hmm... the point of all that is, sorry, but the ads don't really bother me.
Got too many other problems with my email. I should stop posting now and go
eat dinner. Low blood sugar is causing loss of brain function.


tater (Vegetables of the world unite!)