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Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: |
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>Hi, |
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>nobody wants to hurt, harm or insult you. |
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>It is just that 95% of all public mailing lists have this two simple rules: |
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>no top posting |
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>no html |
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>A lot of people don't even read html mails, some even get angry about them, so |
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>when somebody tells you, not to send them, (s)he does it to help you. |
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>The less people reading your mails, the less usefull answers you get. |
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>And some mailing lists are very harsh - one html mail and you are the ass of |
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>the week for them. |
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>Plus, not using html does spare you and everybody else some time |
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>sending/receiving your mails, so it is a double win for everybody when you |
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>don't use it. |
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>That is all. |
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>You are, of course, free to send plain text and html, but as I said, most |
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>people don't read html mails anyway, so it is just some wasted bandwith. |
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>When you are exchanging mails off list, it is a completly different topic. If |
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>your friends read html-mails and don't mind receiving them - or even like |
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>them, you are free to send them as you like. |
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>But mailing lists are a little bit different - because there are a lot of |
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>receivers. |
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>And did I mention, that some people discard html-mails automatically as spam? |
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>So, when you got told not to top post or use html mails, (s)he didn't want to |
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>do anything 'bad' to you - the opposite is true, (s)he wants to help you to |
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>reach as many other users as possible - which should be what you want, right? |
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>Sometimes this 'educating' may sound much harsher than ment - but don't |
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>forget, that for a lot of people on this (or every public) mailing list |
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>english is only the second or third language - and hitting the right 'tone' |
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>is not easy, if you are not a native speaker. |
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>So don't feel bad - we all just want to help you, to make the mailing list as |
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>productive and helpfull for you as possible. |
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>Glück Auf |
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>Volker |
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Thanks, I needed that. Can I assume english is not your native |
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language? The writing was fine, the name gave it away though. I do |
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like to read those who have bad english sometimes. It may take me a |
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minute to figure it out but they need help too. Most would just pass |
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them by and not even try to help. |
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I'm getting there. |
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Thanks again, |
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Dale |
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