On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Alan Gresley <a...@css-class.com> wrote: > > On 20/07/2011 2:29 PM, Ghodmode wrote: > >> I'm not going anywhere, but you have a point. Some people seem to be >> disproportionately upset by the topic. > > The reason that text is used is mainly due to security issues and encoding > (mono-space). My email client is permanently set to only show text and send > text emails. Another reason is that this list conforms to what is practiced > by what I believe are all W3C working Groups. This is text format from the > CSS WG open mailing list. > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Jul/0306.html
I can't dispute the potential for security or privacy problems for HTML email in general, but I do think that most people who receive email are subjected to those problems and that this group isn't the most likely source of them. W3C mailing lists allow HTML and attachments: from http://www.w3.org/2002/03/email_attachment_formats.html : <blockquote> Although email messages themselves are normally sent in plain text or HTML format, attachments in other formats are sometimes included. </blockquote> > You recently made a comment about the practice for this list to have the To: > field not being sent to the list. Any thread where you becomes involved shows > a broken thread in this list archives (below) and most email clients. I didn't understand part of that. Any thread where I become involved shows a broken thread in the list archives? How is that? I have made comments about the "Reply-To", but that's not related to this topic, is it? > http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/116402 That links to a continuous thread hierarchy. > There are good reason why things work the way they do. Are the reasons still good? That's the question I was asking... What are they and are they valid? > Wondering about where _list-mum_ is since this thread is > clearly *off topic*. Yes, it relates to CSS-Discuss rather than to CSS. However, since it affects everyone on the list, it's only appropriate to have the conversation on the mailing list. "list-mum"? Do you mean the list administrator? Note that the email that started the thread was sent to css-d-owner and only CCd to css-d. He hasn't replied. It became a conversation thread because people wanted to discuss it. I'm just replying to peoples messages that they sent to me on the list. I didn't reply on the list unless the messages were sent to me on the list... this one is included, of course. > -- > Alan Gresley > http://css-3d.org/ > http://css-class.com/ -- Ghodmode http://www.ghodmode.com/blog ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
