"Rinaldi J. Montessi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 27 May 2006 00:25:52 -0400:
> Mike Leone wrote: >> Duncan wrote: >>> HTML belongs on the web, not in a news /or/ mail post! >> >> You've spent more bandwidth arguing about the HTML than the actual HTML >> took ... isn't it time to let it go? > > Fact is Duncan spends a lot of time helping people on this list. I'd > say it's a small price to pay to respect, if not the *preferred* posting > method, his wishes. Or risk being -9999'd I agree and that's what I don't get. Sure, folks can post whatever they want, but check the archives. The folks posting in HTML seldom answer questions, tho they ask plenty of them (which BTW would seem to support the technically illiterate and simply don't care HTML-poster=AOLer-type thesis). The folks posting in plain text both ask and answer. What would happen if they just started kill filing on sight of HTML? Who'd answer the questions of the HTML posters? It's not like the guys with the answers /have/ to answer, or get paid for it or anything. They do it because they /want/ to, and in fact, there's always questions that go unanswered due to lack of time to follow everything, so it seems to me it would behoove a person with a question to do what they can to get in the "answered" group, not the "skipped" or even worse "killfiled" group. I know when I go file a bug or ask a developer or a list/group a question, I'm doing all I can to get a usable answer. If that means jumping thru hoops because they asked me to, to get a usable answer, I'll jump thru those hoops, regardless of whether I agree with them or not. I usually do agree because I'm technically literate enough to understand the why, but that's beside the point, if I want an answer, if asked, I jump. It would seem others would do likewise... if they /want/ an answer, anyway, and if they didn't, why would they post, unless it's just to troll, in which case, killfile them and good riddance! I don't have time for uselessness. Besides, it's not the bandwidth. While some may be concerned about text bandwidth, HTML or no, that's something I don't have to worry about and don't choose to worry about or argue. It's the security/malware and spam issue, which remains, regardless of the bandwidth. Anyway, it seems it's time for me to bring my score file over from the old PAN, as it seems I have new stuff to add to it. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
