[extropy-chat] META: HTML posts

[J. Andrew Rogers]

Yes, it is both general policy and good manners to NOT post HTML  
email on this (or any other) mailing list.    Personally, HTML email  
gets shunted to /dev/null for the most part, and I am using a client  
that renders it just fine.  Ignoring arguments of utility, the  
majority of people who send HTML email send badly thought out  
formatting hash that makes their email nigh unreadable, so the real  
world practice is even worse than the theory.

Every couple years for as long as HTML has been supported in an email  
client, some individuals on this list have to be reminded that  
plaintext is the formatting standard for the list.  If the HTML  
formatting is very clean and tasteful it usually does not bother me  
enough to say anything, but lately there has been some pretty ugly  
HTML hash being posted to the list.  Adhering to the plaintext  
standards is strongly encouraged for those who want their email to be  
read.

Cheers,

J. Andrew Rogers


On Nov 10, 2006, at 11:48 AM, ben wrote:
> An observation:
> Those people who post in HTML don't get their posts read as much as
> those who don't. Here's an example of why:
>
>
> From: pjmanney <pj at pj-manney.com>
> Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Martine Rothblatt and "bemes"
> To: <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Message-ID: <26113169.722631163107284594.JavaMail.servlet at perfora>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
> <URL> (which i could follow, if i could be arsed, but usually i can't)
>
>
> I'm guessing i'm not the only one who's reading a daily digest of  
> the posts.
>
> A suggestion:
> Don't post in HTML.
> Up to you, of course, but if you do, i ain't gonna read them. And i
> don't know how many other people, too.
>
> ben zaiboc