Im sorry

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2016 09:14:54 +0200, Gilles Gravier wrote:
>Which summarizes the debate in 2014 (and the trend is only going
>forward)... If you don't want to follow the link, the short answer is
>64% people prefer receiving HTML e-mails form companies than text. I
>have to apologize for working in a world where businesses tend to
>drive, well, business. Following the majority rule seems to be a good
>thing to do.

We are not talking about anybodies opinion or taste, we are talking
about Ubuntu mailing list guidelines [1].

>But I'm thinking that when any user installs Ubuntu, then boots it,
>the default e-mail clients provided (Thunderbird, Evolution...) all
>are set to HTML by default.

No, this is incorrect, since at least Evolution doesn't provide HTML
only at all. If you chose HTML, then Evolution sends a multipart message
containing HTML and plain text. I already pointed out, that there is a
difference between HTML and a multipart message containing HTML. Btw.
Evolution asks you, if it should load remote contend of idiotic HTML
mails, as long as you don't allow it, the HTML mails are displayed
incomplete.

>Feel free to recommend another way to procede, of course.

I don't feel free to recommend anything, I quoted the Ubuntu mailing
list guidelines [1].

Again, we are not talking about what anybody, you or I prefer or do not
prefer, we are talking about Ubuntu mailing list guidelines.

Regards,
Ralf

[1]
Begin forwarded message:

Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 16:40:12 +0200
From: Ralf Mardorf
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Im sorry


Welcome Tim :)

On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 16:11:25 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
>This article is controversial but still instructive:
>
>http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html  

this link might be semi-inappropriate for this user mailing list. I
guess learning by doing is the better approach for this list. Tim needs
only to understand, that he is welcome and that we usually have good
reasons, if we ask somebody to provide more information or want
somebody to care about posting style. There are Wiki articles available
about posting style, but lets stay with the Ubuntu recommendations.

The page to subscribe to this list [1] contains a link to FAQ. Those FAQ
Link to

  http://community.ubuntu.com/contribute/support/mailinglists/

Excerpts from the "Technical guidelines" of the above link:

"[snip] Write your email underneath the email which you are replying to
 [snip] remove any unnecessary text
 [snip] Avoid sending emails in HTML format
 [snip] When replying to messages, use [snip] Reply To List function
 [snip] When starting a new subject, do not reply to a previous email
 [snip] Replying to digest emails breaks the threading [2]
 [snip]"

Regards,
Ralf

[1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users

[2] A note from me, it's avoidable by using MIME Digest
    http://www.list.org/mailman-member/node28.html