OT: top-posting hatred [Was: Re: Update Manager in 9.04]

[Chris G]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 04:57:10PM -0500, Preston Kutzner wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 07:54:14PM +0200, Franz Waldmüller wrote:
> > Btw: Most mailing list I am subscribed to favour plain text email rather 
> > than html email.
> > -> A lot of people don't have a high bandwidth connection.
> > -> screen readers used by visual impaired users can handle plain text 
> > better than html email
> > -> This list is published in the web and search engines can handle plain 
> > text better. If you want your answers to be helpful to users who search 
> > the archive you may consider switching to plain text.
> 
> One other reason to not use HTML besides those mentioned above is that not everyone on this list (myself included) use, or always use a mail reader that supports HTML.  In particular, I'm currently using mutt, which doesn't support HTML.
> 
... but it's trivial to make it work with HTML E-Mails.

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Chris Green