-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > On (10/23/02 16:25), mark wrote: > > Folks, > > > > I'll bring it up again. *Please* consider that, esp. in the > > Unix/Linux > > world there are a *whole* lot less people who want html mail. We > > don't *care* what nifty font you're writing in, we don't *care* > > about your wowser-stationary/wallpaper. > >
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 09:27:31 -0700, Daniel Goldin wrote: > David Wheeler is a self-professed Linux newbie, attempting to install > Redhat for the first time. Singling him out--however gently--seems to > me a bigger breach of etiquette than sending email in html form. Not > the kind of welcome one would hope to get from an open-source > community. > > If you use a good old Linux mailer like mutt and w3m to process html > mail and procmail to sort mailing lists instead of using a digest--it > all comes out looking like vanilla text. Since I switched to mutt, I > no longer seethe with irritation over html mail. Far easier to deal > with it on your end (you can) than to pursuade the great big > ever-expanding world to follow precise email etiquette (they won't). > > Don't mean to single you out but do want to present a kinder, gentler > welcome to David Wheeler. If the Linux community has a flaw, it is > nitpickiness and intolerance of honest mistakes, especially from > beginners. Many guidelines like the following can be found at Google. They are not specific to Linux communities: Netiquette for Email Lists http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml 7 reasons why HTML e-mail is EVIL http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil.shtml Email Group Netiquette Guidance http://www.enabling.org/ia/celiac/netiquett.html - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9uCyO0iMVcrivHFQRAoP5AJ4gzyoZ1LVUsH8LXiS7eCiQGO6jAACggQjy lJInElNahbw0V813VBJUfOU= =/11F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
