[extropy-chat] META: HTML posts

[pjmanney]

You do realize that some of us don't know what the hell you're talking about when you say "/dev/null", "HTML hash" etc., so maybe a general message somewhere BEFORE people join the list would be appropriate.  I had no idea there was an issue or a choice. 

Sorry for the supposed bad manners.  It was certainly unintentional and clearly from ignorance.

Please remember that not all of us are techies, although I realize we may be in the extreme minority on this list.  Maybe even a minority of one!  However, most of the world simply uses technology as it's handed to them.  Me included.

PJ

>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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