I'm sorry if this disagreement has escalated more than it should have, but I'm actually very partial to my end of this discussion. I know all the reasons people have to argue against my point of view here, but I just find it to be a rather arrogent point of view.
On 5/3/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Who said the text should be unformatted? There is a lot you can do with > text to improve the readability and ensure your message is conveyed > correctly, without filling it with useless tags in an effort to firce my > mailer to use your preferences. How is me sending in plain text not forcing my mailer to use your preferences? > No one said you can't use it, but its use is not welcome on this list > (and many others). You an I are visitors here and as such, good manners > dictate that we should abide by the wishes of our hosts. One of those > wishes is to not use HTML mails. That's exactly what I have a problem with. The community tries to claim a love of technology, standards and openess, yet we hold on to the past in the oddest ways, achieving nothing but to hold back the rest of us. > I'm not saying HTML is wrong, I'm not saying HTML is bad, but it is > inappropriate for this list. All in all, I'm saying that everyone should have a choice in how they send and in how they view. And putting the responsibility of the sender only unfairly forces your preferences on both the sender and on many of the recipients. But, if the responsibilty was placed in your hands, those who don't want to receive the HTML, then you could easily have it filtered out of the e-mails, as easily as I could change my settings not to send them as HTML, as you request. The difference is in who the placement of the responsibility affects. It is unjust is take from all for the sake a few, when the few can just as easily accomodate themselves without the ill of the all. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
