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.
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From: Davide Mirtillo davide@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