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)

[Stroller]

On 22 Dec 2008, at 12:59, b.n. wrote:
> ...
>> I don't know what you mean by using the adjective "cold" in
>> relation to
>> the communication error that your mailer posts HTML by default. You
>> should file an upstream bug about that with whomever supplies it.
>
> Why is posting HTML mail a bug? I don't like HTML mail and I try to
> avoid it as much as possible, but there is nothing intrinsically
> "wrong"
> in HTML mail.

It's a bug because it annoys people. It only tends to annoy me when  
the sender has set the text to a size which is unreadable or intrusive  
on my monitor (a size which is undoubtedly perfect on the sender's  
800x600 monitor), but it appears to annoy other people more. That  
there's scope for us to have this discussion demonstrates that it's  
simply better to post plain-text to mailing lists. Mailers should  
default to plain text unless the user explicitly chooses otherwise.

Stroller.