Top-posting, HTML-formatted mail, flaming, shouting and so on, was Re: KUBUNTU

[Chris Miller]

On 5/13/07, Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 13 May 2007, Myriam Rita Schweingruber wrote:
> > - First, you use HTML, which usually goes directly to the trash bin as this
> > is mostly used by spam mailers and should not be used in mailing lists.
> > With 20% spam out of an average 450 mails a day, I really don't need HTML
> > code in a mailing list.
>
> I'm glad someone finally mentioned this.
>
> All HTML to the list goes to /dev/null when received here.

I used to have GMail screen out HTML posts, however, I stopped 'cause
it just got so annoying to have bits of conversations missing.
Please, switch to plaintext.  If there's something so forceful you
need to say that it requires HTML formatting, it's invariably too
strong of language for a public mailing list!

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