On 5/3/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is arrogant about saying "when in Rome..."? Every forum has its > conventions of accepted behaviour. For this forum. those conventions > include non-HTML postings in English.
And what did they do in Rome if you did not do as in Rome? They burned you. Now, that is some arrogence right there. > They are not my preferences, they are the preferences of the list. > There's a big difference. But to take your point, with plain text, each > viewer chooses how their mailer displays it, which font, how large, what > colour etc. And, it is against the preferences of this list that I am making my argument. I'm simply voicing my own opinion that the preferences of the mailing list, the default, if you will, should be an acceptable policy of formatted messages, in HTML. If individual users choose to prefer text, then they are free to view the messages in any way they see fit. If they want to filter out the HTML and set their own fonts to view in, as many mailer will allow, so be it. Furthermore, I want to announce to everyone in this conversation that I am done with it. I make one little comment and it has been blown out of proportion. Everyone is getting far too worked up over this, including myself. I just hope that at least some of you will consider what I've had to say, and maybe the list maintainers will even take it into consideration that a policy change might be in order, given proper care of all the issues and angles invovled. Have a nice day. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
