I need to apologise to the list. I was trying to alter my usual method of replying to the list to one that still worked properly, I thought. Clearly it didn't and I have broken the thread. So I shall resend the original of this by my usual method.
:-(( Lisi On Friday 16 August 2013 17:29:58 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 16 August 2013 17:10:33 David Guntner wrote: > > Regardless of those preferences, on a mailing list where you don't know > > what mail program someone reading is going to be using, it's always a > > bad idea to use HTML in posting a message. Sure, at this point the > > majority of mail readers can render HTML. But ALL mail readers (even > > the ones that understand HTML) can render plain text. Not to mention > > the size increase of messages written using HTML, but that's another > > subject.... > > > > I hope this (rather lengthy reply, sorry about that :-) ) gives you a > > bit better insight into the matter. :-) > > Having missed Ethan's OP, you have missed the main point of peoples' > complaints. Ethan is refusing advice on how to set Thunderbird to reply, > and is doing a most peculiar and unintelligible method of his own, which > also breaks threading. > > As a Thunderbird user, could you possibly try telling Ethan again how he > needs to set Thunderbird to produce comprehensible replies. His persistent > use of his own peculiar method must be turning off more people that just > me. I didn't even read his last, most complicated one. > > I agree with your comment about changing subjects. I have changed this to > increase the liklihood that, if you reply to my email, Ethan will see and > read it. > > Thanks, > Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201308161735.40396.lisi.re...@gmail.com
