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On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann |
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<volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> almost all linux mailing lists - and almost all technical mailing lists have a |
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> no-html rule. If you decide that fance formating is more important than |
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> readership, you are on your own. |
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Hey I don't need that tone. As I said if I knew the informal rule I'd |
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follow it, no issue. It's just that many mail readers make it |
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transparent to the user whether mail is being read or written in |
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plaintext or html, although of course there are obvious and easy to |
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click options to do both. |
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> Also every month is a lenghty thread where people tell someone to stop using |
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> html. You must have skipped that threads. |
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Like I said, I usually just use the list to ask a question or two |
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every once in a while. In-material prefiltered content is probably the |
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wrong place to put advice like that, because by then it's already too |
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late and many people just skim through content till they see something |
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interesting anyway. It's like getting a message about not using an all |
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lowercase password hidden in your system logs. Yes, technically you're |
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supposed to read your logs every once in a while, but most people |
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filter their use of such logs only for specific problems and would |
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transparently miss it. |
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