John J. Foster ha scritto: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 09:32:26AM +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote: >> I think you're missing the point. I never asked the community to >> change its rules. I'm only saying that these particular rules were >> invisible, and there's no way to find out about it, and that's going >> to be a problem for any user community. >> > OK, but don't you honestly think we could just move on now and talk > about Gentoo. Please.
Please not. The user is complaining of a *damn serious* problem. His emails were ignored for an undocumented formatting community rule, and it made impossible for him to use the mailing list, without anything alarming him of the problem until late. I do not use html email myself, but what happened to him is surely plain wrong. And what's even worse, instead of people concerning about that and how to solve the situation in the future, there is a lot of people giggling and behaving like "OMG H4X0RZ" against the "lame n00b" , ignoring the fact that not everyone in this world has been born uttering his first words on Usenet. Please. He's completely right in demanding apologies and a swift reaction to the problem -because if users cannot access the list due to undocumented stuff, it's a problem. Also: to the people filtering out html mail: why? No, really, *why*? My mail client is set to receive html mail and convert it in plain text transparently, so I *never* see the html. Why can't you do so? It's not 1990 anymore. Could you use a more serious email client? What's the point in filtering out content because of formatting? You dislike html? Have your client convert it in text. You think it's heavier than it should be? Hmm, we live in a world of broadband and 1-Tb hard disks, and emerge -auv world, do you really complain for a couple more kb? I understand the fascination with the Ancient Unix Tools, but don't you think a bit more elasticity is worthwile in 2009? m.
