Oh please! That might have been true back in 1995 but today? You gotta be kidding.
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:40 AM, Davide Mirtillo davide@evnetwork.it wrote:
Il 09/05/2011 11:25, adept techlists - kazar ha scritto:
sivaji j.g wrote:
Please refrain from sending HTML e-mail to lists. It is not *recommended*, often discouraging to read your reply though it is valuable. I hope the list moderators will look into it (if anyone around).
This is a losing battle. If mailing lists are offered as support forums for the public, it must be recognized that many, if not most, email programs by default send html or rtf emails, or they are using web email such as gmail or yahoo that have prominent formatting buttons and actually encourage formatted emails. And end-users are largely unaware of what the differences are, and how to create a plain-text email, and should not have to study up on this to discuss things with a community.
I used to be a heavy-duty plain-text email evangelist. I gave up on this sort of purist approach maybe 10 years ago, when I got tired of dealing with my clients sending me inline responses to my questions with notes such as "my responses are in blue". I switched to an html-capable email client (T'bird, now Postbox) and have never looked back.
Anyway, the person you chose to pick on does use Yahoo mail which can be determined by exposing the full headers of her messages and looking at the X-Mailer value, and she did NOT send an html email, it was sent as Content-Type: multipart/mixed ... which is actually the de facto standard for a long time now. If your email app has trouble displaying the plain-text portion of a multipart/mixed message, maybe look around at other email programs.
kazar
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
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