Hi Tim, Tim Kehres wrote: > These "rules" (netiquette pertaining to HTML postings) have been around > since almost before time began (at least in reference to modern email > usage). At the time they made a lot sense. In terms of current usage, not > as much, IMHO. When sending content that can be sent either way, it's > always a good idea to send the simplest format out, which would be plain > text, unless the message content would dictate otherwise.
Well here over in Germany not all folks have DSL or ISDN. Some of us still use plain old analog modems and downloading HTML-content via eMail takes a lot of time. There is no significant reason for me to write HTML in eMails (or Newsgroup-Postings). As well as there is no significant reason for me to write my comment on top of a message leaving the rest of the email intact (fullquote). I am too long to eMail and News to know that the users are increasing too fast for me to teach them proper use of eMail. HTML in eMail for me is a security risk (ok that's for the Windows-Folks ;-) ) but imho it should be forbidden. But well its my freedom just to block text/html on my PC mounting those stuff to /dev/null :-D Folks sending eMails in HTML _and_ Plain Text have nothing to say to me. They do not work with their programs and they do not read anything about the risks a.s.o. Just my 0,02 ¤ bis dahin Martin Mewes -- http://agent-de.mamemu.de/ | Der Forte Agent auf Deutsch http://www.mamemu.de/ | Meine VMware-Seiten http://vmware.itst.org/ | Deutschsprachiges VMware-WebForum Linux User:274764 - http://counter.li.org/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
