mailing list etiquette, again [was Marketing (was Re: Ubuntu's success)]

[Cefiar]

On Friday 28 April 2006 02:16, Matthew East wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 21:17 +0800, Michael T. Richter wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-27-04 at 07:29 -0500, Rocco Stanzione wrote:
> > > Let me take this opportunity to remind the list to please refrain from:
> > >
> > > - sending HTML emails
> >
> > Considering that the SABDFL Himself posts in HTML, I think this
> > particular injunction is going to fall on deaf ears.
>
> It's not worth discussing this again at length (see previous threads for
> more discussion), but those *guidelines* should apply to all mailing
> list users (you've entirely misused the word "injunction" here).

Agreed.

> As with all guidelines, people will choose to ignore them. That's a
> choice which is available to them. If someone very important in the
> community makes that choice, I don't think that it makes the guidelines
> any less important, or even any less authoritative.

I run a few mailing lists currently, and have done so over a number of years, 
with various different pieces of mailing list software, and it always irks me 
that you cannot tell Mailman to filter out HTML posts, or alternatively, 
strip all the HTML content, even if perhaps on a per-user basis (eg: each 
user could have a flag NOT to receive HTML mail). This would then make the 
HTML mail point null and void.

-- 
 Stuart Young - aka Cefiar - cef at optus.net