OT- (was: master and slave)

[Chip Mefford]

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Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 05:13:52PM -0400,
>  Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote 
>  a message of 83 lines which said:
> 
> 
>>First of all, please turn off the option in your message-composer to
>>spew a URL for everything that looks like a domain name or an IP
>>address -- it made your message almost unreadable.
> 
> 
> I believe it is a *stupid* function of a *stupid* Web mail (gmail)
> used mostly by ignorant and may be stupid people (all the messages
> I've seen with this stupidity came from gmail). I am not sure it can
> be switched off.

It's turn-off-able.

The culprit is Rich text formatting, which is optional
in gmail webmail.

i've tested to be sure.



> 
> Do note that even CIDR prefixes are URLized by the stupid gmail:
> 
> Netblock:*83.206.0.0/16 <http://83.206.0.0/16>
> 
> 
> 

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