Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

[Florian Philipp]

Mark David Dumlao schrieb:
[...]
> If the memo appears somewhere, it might have to do with some transient
> step of the subscription process. That does make it hard to find now
> that I'm looking for it.
>
> What's up with html e-mails, btw? Most public emails send html e-mail
> by default, and one imagines that there would be a wide range of
> capabilities from the readers in the portage tree...
>

I'll just link to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_e-mail

Concerning the missing netiquette:
It no issue of the mailing list providers, no official policy. It's
rather personal preference (or ability) of the members of this list.

There are various reasons why it is generally disliked to use HTML-emails:

- They unnecessarily make messages larger (especially if you also
provide a plain text variant).
- Users of mutt and other text mail readers will most likely have to
filter your HTML.
- There are security concerns with spam, phishing and so on. Therefore
many of us never even take a look at the HTML-version of a mail (a
simple mail reader setting).
- There are accessibility concerns.
- They are usually just unnecessary (unless you need tables or such
alike in which case I would send them as a separate HTML-part and use
the plain text part to explain why you need it).

HTH