On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 04:07:49PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 09:49:14 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 02:15:53PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 19:57:49 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > That said, there do seem to be a fair number of self-indulgent, > > > > self-important, opinionated pundits using this list for their own, > > > > irrelevant proselytizing of one view or another. But I only know that > > > > because, on occasion, sort of like looking at a car wreck, I find myself > > > > opening one of those OT posts. If you open one by accident, delete and > > > > move > > > > on. Or so I advise (knowing there are deaf ears out there). > > > > > > Maybe you should learn to follow clearly stated list policies such as > > > "Never send your messages in HTML; use plain text instead." before you > > > make judgement calls about the contributions of others. > > > > Actually, his message was a properly configured multipart/alternative > > message. I'm set up to prefer text/plain over text/html when viewing > > multipart/alternative, so I wasn't even aware that it contained an HTML > > version until I went back to check. I don't think you have any basis for > > complaint on this one. > > I was well aware of the exact nature of his message; that is why I > changed the subject to "messages with HTML content" and not simply to > "HTML messages". In my understanding of the English language the words > "never" and "instead" in the mailing list guidelines rule out messages > with an HTML part just as much as they rule out HTML-only ones.
I think you're being unreasonably pedantic. Remember the Internet Robustness Principle: "Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving." (I found http://ironick.typepad.com/ironick/2005/05/my_history_of_t.html to have a nice history, incidentally.) His message was perfectly readable in plain text, and I believe that follows the spirit of the law here. Anyhow, we're way off-topic here. If you want to discuss further, let's take it off the list. > Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer > Florian | --Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
