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Mark posted <1f81f7e00511060815n1e936f08p1a25ec2ed0042b4a@××××××××××.com>, |
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excerpted below, on Sun, 06 Nov 2005 11:15:03 -0500: |
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> Perfect!<br> |
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> Thanks Damian!!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/6/05, <b |
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> class="gmail_sendername">Damian Swistowski</b> <<a |
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> href="mailto:dswistowski@×××××.com">dswistowski@×××××.com</a>> |
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> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid |
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> rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Mark |
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> wrote:<br>> |
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This says gmail, and I understand it's a bit of trouble there, but can you |
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please turn off HTML when sending to lists, unless it's a list that |
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specifically encourages it? |
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Within the FLOSS (Free Libre and Open Source Software) community, HTML in |
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mail or news is considered by many to be the mark of malware or spam, and |
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thus is discouraged and often killfiled. Where it isn't killfiled, many |
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are by choice running clients that show the raw HTML (in addition to the |
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plain text if the sending client included it, thankfully gmail does). By |
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posting in HTML, you therefore limit your audience, and limit those |
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willing to take the time to answer what is then classed as an "obvious |
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HTML using luser willing to risk security for their HTML", if they don't |
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simply killfile it. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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