[extropy-chat] META: HTML posts

[Damien Broderick]

At 10:51 PM 11/10/2006 -0500, PJ wrote:

>You do realize that some of us don't know what the hell you're 
>talking about when you say "/dev/null",

That's why dog gave us google.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//dev/null

>  "HTML hash" etc.,

I think that was a metaphor rather than a techie term.

>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.

It's there, or used to be. Let's see...

http://www.extropy.org/emaillists.htm

Hmm. Not. But plain or vanilla text is customary netiquette, or used to be.

http://www.gweep.ca/~edmonds/usenet/ml-etiquette.html is a decade old 
and *too* strict; e.g., requests "a mono-spaced font (as opposed to 
proportionally spaced)," which is now silly, but does sensibly say: 
"and avoid anything other than the most basic text you can use to get 
your message across."

Damien Broderick