On 18/05/09 17:59, Gene Kwiecinski wrote: > >>>> Can't the list software strip large attachments, please. > >> I actually checked if an option existed, but I didn't find any. Maybe >> John knows how to do it if at all possible. > > Was thinking that stripping B'harni-awful html in email would be a > nicety, but that's just me. > > Personally, when I see html email with a retina-searing blinding-white > background, or any garish color combination that just hurts my eyes > trying to read it, I just delete it unread.
Until or unless some way is found to have Google Groups remove "too large" attachments, I suppose we must rely on "voluntary self-imposed good conduct". Let's try to summarize here what I think are, or used to be, the netiquette standards for email mime-type and attachment nature. AFAIK on this list plaintext email is preferred, if only because it requires less bandwidth, but that preference is currently much less stressed in the "netiquette" posts than it used to be some years ago, and maybe some newbies aren't yet even aware of it. Plain black-on-white HTML is OK, I think (though plaintext would be better), but white or pink BG with a FG in varying shades of mauve, yellow, red, green, blue and other rainbow colours is, what shall I say? My impression, like yours, is that "it hurts the eyes", and as such, it certainly doesn't help getting people to read your message and give a useful answer to it. "Text" attachments are perfectly acceptable when useful, and I'm thinking of e.g. suggested patches to the Vim code, runtime scripts and help -- even though Bram sends his patches "inline" to vim_dev, which IMHO is acceptable too _provided that_, like Bram's, the post is sent in 7bit or 8bit Content-Transfer-Encoding (not quoted-printable and certainly not base64). As for "binary" attachments, I would say that screenshots in GIF, JPG or PNG formats, to show, in case of a problem, what Vim displays on your screen, are acceptable, and that nontext non-image attachments (including *.doc, *.pdf, etc.) aren't; but in general, the bigger the attachment (whether text or binary), the more one should try to find some place to upload it on the web instead, so as to give only the URL in the email itself. Best regards, Tony. -- Really heard in court in the U.S.A.: Q.: Are you sexually active? A.: No, I let my partner take the initiative. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
