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.

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