On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Debayan Banerjee <[email protected]> wrote:

> Among the people who have sent mails to this list include yourself,
> Indranil da and Debarshi. No one else posted too many mails here.
> Reason? This HTML rule.
> So my point is that very few people actually respond to any mails here
> and that is not because they are sleepy or dont care but because of
> this rule.

Are you sure of this ? Almost all mailing lists follow NO-HTML rule
specifically.

> I under estimated myself earlier. I have more arguments infact. All I
> say is mails/discussions in this list increase by a factor of 10
> if you remove this policy. So many other lists allow HTML for a
> reason. I would have supported bouncing off HTML mails if this were
> the kernel-devel list or some elite hacker list where people are
> already into the culture from a long time participate. Clearly, this
> is not such a list. One look at the archives clearly tells me that
> this list has had no discussion at all in the past 4 months. I cant
> see how that is good in anyway.
>
> And you asking me for a list of mails in support is too much to ask
> right now, but I can amass it in a few days if you so demand.

One really does not need to be elite hacker to understand the
importance of text based emails.

Kushal
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