On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 12:05:53AM -0700, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > I sometimes ask posters to not send HTML-only emails, and also to bottom > > post. Is this OK with others? > > > > I recognize that sometimes I am too picky so I would like to make sure I > > am not going against the majority opinion. > > > > If it is OK, can we add to our List Netiquette [1] the "common mistake" > > of sending HTML-only emails? > > Ok with me. > > Though, quite frankly, I do not see how much formulating these rules actually > help to shape behaviour on ml. I asked while ago if some ppl here could spend > few seconds more on their reply and delete the parts of emails which do not > immediately relate to their answer - instead of letting all other devs spend > their time on filtering several pages of quoted archive of the thread in the > body.
Thanks for the reminder. I am guilty of this and Uwe has also reminded me several times. I'm trying to get better about it but I have trouble interpreting the "immediately relate" part of your statement. So in this example, what should I have deleted? Should I have deleted everything before "I asked while ago"? > Did not help much, currently like currently 20-30% of the traffic here. > But I learnt my lesson and in many cases automatically deleting messages > where I don't see real reply within first page of my terminal. > This strategy might help you with HTML folks as well ;) Well, mutt can easily be set to automatically convert HTML to plain text using w3m. So it is not so much of a bother. I'm not sure why but I still find it annoying. I'm guessing you know, but since you use mutt the 'T' key is very useful to toggle the quoted parts of messages on and off. That is also why it doesn't bother me when people don't delete parts of their emails. For me it is just one key-press. But I can understand why it's annoying to others. Scott
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