On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Gergo Tisza <gtisza(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
That way people can get the information from the
nicely-formatted
source without simultaneously being lured by a not-as-nicely formatted
source.
Fwiw, a personal +1 to just including the link (and optionally 1 or 2
highlight sentences) in these email updates, which I otherwise
appreciate. :)
Why is that better than making both sources nicely formatted? All it
probably takes is flipping a configuration switch to stop mailman from
butchering HTML emails.
That's a topic almost as contentious as top/bottom posting! "Nicely"
is subjective!! ;-)
Yes, it is just a toggle, but as the FAQ[1] says:
Q. My users hate HTML in their email and for security
reasons, I want to strip out all MIME attachments. How can I do this?
A. Mailman 2.1 has this feature built-in. See the Content Filtering Options page in the
admin interface.
[1]
http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/faq.html
A personal -1 to allowing HTML formatting on this list in general - I
don't want to see twitter logos, custom typefaces/colors, or [[mystery
meat navigation]] links, and all the other woes of HTML email - there
isn't a way to override this in gmail directly, so I appreciate that
some of our mailing lists auto-convert HTML->plaintext. If this
sub-issue gets forked into a separate thread to propose a change, I
can supply a litany of links as to why HTML emails are still bad
netiquette and are frustrating for many users (especially on a
technical mailing list, where some users use a CLI to read). But
hopefully that's enough info to conclude this sub-issue. :-)