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Duncan wrote: |
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> Mark Knecht posted on Mon, 17 Apr 2017 21:15:00 -0700 as excerpted: |
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>> Geez Duncan, get over it. |
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> I was over it. One sentence request as I was answering the question that |
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> was asked. That was it. |
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> Until someone (not you!) questioned that one sentence request and I |
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> needed to fill in the reasoning behind it. |
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>> I don't send HTML by default and you know that. |
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> +1 =:^) |
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>> If you don't want to read and respond then don't, but get over the idea |
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>> that you alone are the keeper of what's right for 7 billion people on |
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>> the Internet and move on. |
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> I have a simple rule. When I reply to an HTML mail, I ask that people |
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> turn it off. But only if I'm replying for other reasons, and it's |
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> normally short and polite. As it was here. (Tho sometimes I explain why |
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> in the first post too, but I still try to keep it brief and to the |
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> point... relatively, for my posts, anyway.) |
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> If it happens repeatedly, I may killfile. But I don't at first, because |
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> I've found the short request, making people aware of the problem, is |
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> often enough to get them to fix it, especially if I'm answering as best I |
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> can whatever else at the same time. =:^) |
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> FWIW, I actually believe people have the /right/ to post in html if they |
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> wish, but I have the right to ask them to stop, too, and to killfile if |
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> they ultimately don't. Fortunately, I don't often need to do so, because |
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> as I said, most people aren't too assertive of that /right/ if asked |
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> nicely by someone trying to answer their posted question at the same time. |
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> Of course it sometimes gets a longer discussion going too or instead, as |
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> it did here. |
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Most on Gentoo mailing lists expect text only. A lot of people do the |
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same, killfile, filter etc, if a person sends HTML. To ignore what is |
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expected on a Gentoo mailing list only hurts the person ignoring it. |
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The person that killfiled, filters etc the person may have the solution |
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to the problem. Since they no longer see the email, they won't answer it. |
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If you see me sending HTML only, let me know. I have mine set to send |
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plain text but I've had a time or two where a upgrade has messed that |
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up. Generally, someone points it out and I go fix it. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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