Author: Bernard El-Hagin
<belhagin(_at_)bya1c87(_dot_)pl(_dot_)lucent(_dot_)com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 09:13:28 +0200 (MET DST)
ID:
<Pine(_dot_)SOL(_dot_)3(_dot_)96(_dot_)980717091139(_dot_)586F-100000(_at_)bya1c87(_dot_)pl(_dot_)lucent(_dot_)com>
Has it occured to anyone that I may *not* have web access? Not everyone
does, you know.
Sure, not everyone does. My grandmother doesn't, for one. But then again,
she's not using email on a Unix system that utilizes procmail and PINE.
Unless you are on one of the very few systems which would allow you to use
procmail but wouldn't allow you shell access (ie your login shell was PINE
perhaps) it isn't very likely.
So.... was that your real excuse or were you just unwilling to use the web
access you have to do this simple search?
Oh, I think this post from you answers that:
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 12:31:29 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Bernard El-Hagin
<belhagin(_at_)bya1(_dot_)pl(_dot_)lucent(_dot_)com>
To: procmail(_at_)informatik(_dot_)rwth-aachen(_dot_)de
Subject: About e-mail
Message-ID:
<Pine(_dot_)SOL(_dot_)3(_dot_)96(_dot_)980624122702(_dot_)17413F-100000(_at_)bya1c87(_dot_)pl(_dot_)
lucent.com>
Can anyone direct me to documents on the Net that *thoroughly*
talk about e-mail, MUAs, MTAs, etc? What I need is something that
will teach me as much about the "hows-and-whys" of e-mail as
possible.
Seems you must have 'net access then.....
The reason I post this is that it _is_ a safe assumption nowadays that
people _do_ have web access. The exceptions are fewer and fewer and farther
and farther apart, and still only prove the rule.
I'm not staying on a list where I get flamed even by the person
I tried to help. Sod off everyone. Bye, bye.
Given that I see 10 posts from you and 3 of them are related to this current
thread, I don't think your grand exit is going to cause a great fuss.
Oh, and I wouldn't have CC'd you on this message except that you may have
signed off already, and since you made your message publically to the list I
wanted to make sure my reply also went there but I didn't want you to be
talked about behind your back.
And my reason for sending it to the list is because I want to explain why it
bothers me when someone posts a private message to the list. Sure, I can
hear someone saying "So you're posting a message to a thread to complain
about excess traffic on the list?" and yeah, I am because I'm hoping that
maybe we can avoid a repeat of this episode by explaining why it wasn't
appropriate and how it could have been avoided, so save all of us the time
and trouble.
TjL