On 22 Dec 2008, at 23:18, Stroller wrote:
...
I am currently searching my subscription info, the gentoo site, or
the
mailing list welcome for any hints that html messages are rude or
unwanted. I am having some difficulty finding it, that alone is a
warning sign that the amount of pre-specialization needed to
participate in the community is dangerously prohibitive to the point
where it is almost invisible.
Oh, $deity.
I don't even want to start on this one.
<sigh/>
This is just such a sophisticated & well-constructed sentence,
contrived to present your innocence in any wrongdoing which may
possibly have happened to have occurred. The implication of this is
that anyone who sees things differently must be wrongheaded in some
way.
Oh, and I meant to add here:
Posting in plain-text is not an "amount of pre-specialization needed
to participate in the community [that] is dangerously prohibitive".
You post in HTML, you get asked not to. You don't do it again. End of
story.
One reason your post generated so many responses is that *everyone*
has posted once in HTML and been asked not to. Like, everyone on this
list, so long ago that we've all each forgotten the occasion. We
posted in HTML, we got asked not to, we didn't do it again, end of
story.
We didn't post a 650 word essay on the subject, and the fact that you
felt compelled to do that is sure to make you the focus of some
unwanted attention.
Stroller.
