Oh please! That might have been true back in 1995 but today? You gotta be kidding. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:40 AM, Davide Mirtillo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davide@evnetwork.it">davide@evnetwork.it</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Il 09/05/2011 11:25, adept techlists - kazar ha scritto:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> sivaji j.g wrote:<br>
>> Please refrain from sending HTML e-mail to lists. It is not<br>
>> *recommended*, often discouraging to read your reply though it is<br>
>> valuable. I hope the list moderators will look into it (if anyone<br>
>> around).<br>
> This is a losing battle. If mailing lists are offered as support forums<br>
> for the public, it must be recognized that many, if not most, email<br>
> programs by default send html or rtf emails, or they are using web email<br>
> such as gmail or yahoo that have prominent formatting buttons and<br>
> actually encourage formatted emails. And end-users are largely unaware<br>
> of what the differences are, and how to create a plain-text email, and<br>
> should not have to study up on this to discuss things with a community.<br>
><br>
> I used to be a heavy-duty plain-text email evangelist. I gave up on this<br>
> sort of purist approach maybe 10 years ago, when I got tired of dealing<br>
> with my clients sending me inline responses to my questions with notes<br>
> such as "my responses are in blue". I switched to an html-capable email<br>
> client (T'bird, now Postbox) and have never looked back.<br>
><br>
> Anyway, the person you chose to pick on does use Yahoo mail which can be<br>
> determined by exposing the full headers of her messages and looking at<br>
> the X-Mailer value, and she did NOT send an html email, it was sent as<br>
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed ... which is actually the de facto<br>
> standard for a long time now. If your email app has trouble displaying<br>
> the plain-text portion of a multipart/mixed message, maybe look around<br>
> at other email programs.<br>
><br>
> kazar<br>
<br>
</div></div>There are loads of reasons why HTML messages are not good for mailing<br>
lists. See [0] for some examples. There's also an rfc about messaging<br>
which i think would be pretty interesting for some of the members of<br>
this mailing list [1].<br>
<br>
Simply saying "omg it's 2011, get an html e-mail client!1!!!!!" is not<br>
an answer, because it's not a logic argument, and i could just reply on<br>
the same line: "omg it's 2011, learn to configure your e-mail client<br>
properly!".<br>
<br>
HTML emails sent to mailing lists are just plain rude, IMO. It's even<br>
worse when there's people asking you to switch to plain text messages.<br>
<br>
[0] <a href="http://pyropus.ca/personal/writings/nomime.html" target="_blank">http://pyropus.ca/personal/writings/nomime.html</a><br>
[1] <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855" target="_blank">http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855</a><br>
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