[support] HTML e-mail (was Re: Chaos Tool installation problem)

[Ms. Nancy Wichmann]

Interesting, Davide, because your email arrived in HTML format.

Frankly, I think the prefernce is primarily a matter of opinion. I prefer to 
receinve the message with the formatting that the author intended. Further, when 
one sends links (as you did), I like to be able to just click, rather than copy, 
open a window, and paste.

Further, I prefer it when one edits the email to which one is responding so that 
I don't have to re-read through the whole thread again.

But then I also prefer GUIs to CLI. I guess I'm just old fashioned. ;-)
 

Nancy E. Wichmann, PMP

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.




----- Original Message ----
> From: Davide Mirtillo <davide at evnetwork.it>
> There are loads of reasons why HTML messages are not good for mailing
> lists. See [0] for some examples. There's also an rfc about messaging
> which i think would be pretty interesting for some of the members of
> this mailing list [1].
> 
> Simply saying "omg it's 2011, get an html e-mail client!1!!!!!" is not
> an answer, because it's not a logic argument, and i could just reply on
> the same line: "omg it's 2011, learn to configure your e-mail client
> properly!".
> 
> HTML emails sent to mailing lists are just plain rude, IMO. It's even
> worse when there's people asking you to switch to plain text messages.
> 
> [0] http://pyropus.ca/personal/writings/nomime.html
> [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855