Re: [gentoo-embedded] Correct uclibc profile to use?

[Ed W]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
>
>> You appear to be using KMail which supports html mail just fine...
>>
>
> which ive disabled so i dont have to deal with it.  replies/quoting easily
> break and destroy followups.  all so people can force their preferred viewing
> font on others.
>

Actually, getting all technical on you for a moment, but at least in 
theory HTML has the ability to properly support replies and quoting as 
part of it's standard

...Absolutely with you though that the most popular MUA in most circles 
is Outlook and this fails even to reply and create a proper indent let 
alone using decent use of HTML tags...  Oh well.

Not really sure what Thunderbird does - it prompts sometimes and 
othertimes does it's own thing..  Hope this is plain text?

> if you want to make the argument on a non-technical list, go for it.  open
> source technical lists (such as this one) have all banned html.  get with it
> or dont post.


I already nailed my colours to the mast as someone who cares (remember I 
serve customers with only 20KB/minute of bandwidth!) - I was pointing 
out that this debate pops up time and time again and basically it's like 
trying to hold back the tide...

For what it's worth I have a very clever filtering setup as part of my 
ISP arrangement which simply automatically converts html to plain text 
and archives the original so that you can get it back again if you need 
it, etc.  I think if you really want plain text only then it's far 
easier to just setup the mailing list to convert all mails automatically 
than it is to try and badger users to change their habits...

Personally I think this is a problem solvable by computer and I'm all in 
favour of stuff where teh computer does the work rather than humans 
having to press one more key just to do something (which is basically 
also your complaint).  I can point you towards some html flattener 
software if you are the admin for this list?

Good luck

Ed W