[extropy-chat] META: HTML posts

[Colin Geoffrey Hales]

I am forced to use squirrel mail web client by the uni (current
circumstances)...there doesn't appear to be an option for sending HTML,
but I can't tell if it strips out the markers or merely makes them
invisible in the editor, which looks like raw text. All I know is I have
no control over it and reformatting what squirrelmail's edits do to HTML
wastes a lot of time. grrr to squirrelmail.
Colin



>
> 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
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