Stroller ha scritto: > > On 21 Dec 2008, at 09:46, Mark David Dumlao wrote: >> ... On perhaps my third or fourth repost, I found a >> shocking answer: >> >> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Nicolas Sebrecht >>> ... >>> You may try by sending a mail using the text format instead of the HTML >>> one. I don't read more than one line when it's written in HTML. I >>> suspect that a lot of contributors do the same here. >>> >>> Please, conform to the netiquette. >> >> That was one of the coldest, most invisible, and hardest to >> troubleshoot communication errors I've ever seen. > > This is a very poor description. Mr Sebrecht's reply certainly was not a > "communication error", if that's what you mean. His response was quite > reasonable, and it wasn't even terse.
The comunication error is not the answer of mr.Sebrech. It's the fact that, as you put it: > no-one bitchslapped you for this. Basically he went ignored for unknown (to him -and to potentially any newbie) reasons, without feedback, for a lot of time until Sebrech told him that under pressure. > I don't know what you mean by using the adjective "cold" in relation to > the communication error that your mailer posts HTML by default. You > should file an upstream bug about that with whomever supplies it. Why is posting HTML mail a bug? I don't like HTML mail and I try to avoid it as much as possible, but there is nothing intrinsically "wrong" in HTML mail. m.