On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemm...@tu-clausthal.de> wrote: > almost all linux mailing lists - and almost all technical mailing lists have a > no-html rule. If you decide that fance formating is more important than > readership, you are on your own.
Hey I don't need that tone. As I said if I knew the informal rule I'd follow it, no issue. It's just that many mail readers make it transparent to the user whether mail is being read or written in plaintext or html, although of course there are obvious and easy to click options to do both. > Also every month is a lenghty thread where people tell someone to stop using > html. You must have skipped that threads. Like I said, I usually just use the list to ask a question or two every once in a while. In-material prefiltered content is probably the wrong place to put advice like that, because by then it's already too late and many people just skim through content till they see something interesting anyway. It's like getting a message about not using an all lowercase password hidden in your system logs. Yes, technically you're supposed to read your logs every once in a while, but most people filter their use of such logs only for specific problems and would transparently miss it.
