Howdy all,
I'm receiving this list in digest form, as I do with many lists. Can we please have a policy decision on attachments and HTML here? They are completely useless and annoying, and if they are allowed I'll just have to unsubscribe and miss out on the useful discussions that happen here.
My policy decision on attachments and HTML on mailing lists is that they are almost always unnecessary and if anybody ever does it, he oughta suffer the horrible punishment of being told not to do that anymore.
Larry
I read my email in mutt, a *nix mail program. HTML in email is evil and annoying, I agree. Attachments are bad news generally speaking. Nothing good ever comes in an attachment, I always say. (Yes, I know I'm wrong, but I say it always anyway. :-) )
--Jimbo
Ben Finney wrote:
Howdy all,
I'm receiving this list in digest form, as I do with many lists. Can we please have a policy decision on attachments and HTML here? They are completely useless and annoying, and if they are allowed I'll just have to unsubscribe and miss out on the useful discussions that happen here.
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--- Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com wrote:
... HTML in email is evil and annoying, I agree.
I happen to stand for the other side. HTML in email allows for richer expression of ideas. I like to use italic, bold, numbered and bullet lists, and (occasionally) tables. I delight in replying to people in HTML if they send me HTML first.
But I work in a department where most engineers still use elm(1) on HP UNIX workstations. So I do not cast pearls before swine. (No, Jimmy, I'm not calling you a pig :-).
Adapting St. Paul's approach to the subject at hand, I will become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some to realize the benefit of (at least text) e-mail.
On this list, I've been known to write up a wiki page, then I include a pointer to it in my plain, old boring ASCII text e-mail. That keeps everyone happy.
<>< [[tbc]]
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Ben Finney bignose@zip.com.au writes:
I'm receiving this list in digest form, as I do with many lists. Can we please have a policy decision on attachments and HTML here? They are completely useless and annoying, [...]
I agree that HTML mails are more noise than signal. Most other attachements are probably, too. For example, WojPob's icon attachment was certainly well-meant, but not really useful to the members of this list who are not Bomis admins (i.e. the large majority).
But I'm also guilty of attaching cryptographic signatures to my mails. This makes sense from my viewpoint, but if people here find that annoying, I can turn them off for posting to Wikipedia-L. Unlike X.509 "signatures", PGP's output is quite compact, though...
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