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Dear List, |
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Please listen to yourselves. I changed my email options a week ago. I can |
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live with any convention, and I am glad to be instructed. Does anybody have |
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an answer to the actual question that started this thread? |
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-----David Ford <david@×××××××××.org> wrote: ----- |
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To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o |
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From: David Ford <david@×××××××××.org> |
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Date: 05/14/2008 12:52PM |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Correct uclibc profile to use? |
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Personally, I am for permitting HTML, or rich text email. I quite |
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prefer to use rich mail. I am also judicious in it's use so it's not |
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bloated like M$ mail. |
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This list has very rabid anti-html users. They would rather pollute |
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emails with a large amount of spaces to position their content and odd |
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characters to represent barely decipherable graphic content than use a |
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language designed for marking up and laying out the presentation. |
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Eventually their kind will grow old and the younger generation will take |
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over. They will go the way of the 74 column force wrapped emails who |
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went the way of the 36 column force wrapped emails, etc, etc. |
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All their excuses are entirely lame. All modern mailing list software can: |
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a) reform mail from HTML to plain text |
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b) archive both plain text and HTML mail just fine |
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All modern MUAs can also present the end user with plain text |
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representations of HTML or use the text/plain mime part instead of the |
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text/html mime part whether it is native or by sub shell. |
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This particular subject comes up several times a year and will continue to. |
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HTML mail is neither ignorant nor non-standard but you will definitely |
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have several people on this list lambast you as such. |
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Further, I consider these people hypocrites since most of them run |
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websites and use HTML markup. Why don't they make plain text web |
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pages? Their content can be expressed just as stone age appearing as |
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their text email is expressed. |
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^_^ |
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-david |
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Ed W wrote: |
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> Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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>> |
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>>> You appear to be using KMail which supports html mail just fine... |
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>>> |
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>> which ive disabled so i dont have to deal with it. replies/quoting |
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easily |
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>> break and destroy followups. all so people can force their preferred |
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viewing |
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>> font on others. |
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>> |
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> |
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> Actually, getting all technical on you for a moment, but at least in |
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> theory HTML has the ability to properly support replies and quoting as |
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> part of it's standard |
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> ...Absolutely with you though that the most popular MUA in most |
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> circles is Outlook and this fails even to reply and create a proper |
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> indent let alone using decent use of HTML tags... Oh well. |
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> Not really sure what Thunderbird does - it prompts sometimes and |
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> othertimes does it's own thing.. Hope this is plain text? |
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> |
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>> if you want to make the argument on a non-technical list, go for it. |
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open |
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>> source technical lists (such as this one) have all banned html. get |
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with it |
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>> or dont post. |
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> |
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> |
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> I already nailed my colours to the mast as someone who cares (remember |
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> I serve customers with only 20KB/minute of bandwidth!) - I was |
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> pointing out that this debate pops up time and time again and |
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> basically it's like trying to hold back the tide... |
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> For what it's worth I have a very clever filtering setup as part of my |
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> ISP arrangement which simply automatically converts html to plain text |
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> and archives the original so that you can get it back again if you |
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> need it, etc. I think if you really want plain text only then it's |
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> far easier to just setup the mailing list to convert all mails |
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> automatically than it is to try and badger users to change their |
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habits... |
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> Personally I think this is a problem solvable by computer and I'm all |
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> in favour of stuff where teh computer does the work rather than humans |
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> having to press one more key just to do something (which is basically |
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> also your complaint). I can point you towards some html flattener |
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> software if you are the admin for this list? |
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> Good luck |
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> |
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> Ed W |
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