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On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Ed W wrote: |
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> Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> >> You appear to be using KMail which supports html mail just fine... |
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> > which ive disabled so i dont have to deal with it. replies/quoting |
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> > easily break and destroy followups. all so people can force their |
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> > preferred viewing font on others. |
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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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i'm not saying that html isnt capable, just that the reality is, the clients |
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that generate it do so in an unusable manner. it is also useless and hates a |
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lot on transforming into other random interfaces |
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> > if you want to make the argument on a non-technical list, go for it. |
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> > open source technical lists (such as this one) have all banned html. get |
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> > with it or dont post. |
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> I already nailed my colours to the mast as someone who cares (remember I |
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> serve customers with only 20KB/minute of bandwidth!) - I was pointing |
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> out that this debate pops up time and time again and basically it's like |
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> trying to hold back the tide... |
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sorry, i didnt mean for my reply to sound like i was directing it at you. the |
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answer was meant in general. there is no discussion to have as we already |
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have a policy and it isnt going to change. |
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-mike |
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