On Montag 22 Dezember 2008, b.n. wrote: > > 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.
no. His mails were ignored because nobody had an answer. Shown by the fact that nobody complained about his triple posting or html mails. > > I do not use html email myself, but what happened to him is surely plain > wrong. no, it is just 'life'. > > 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. just search for 'html mail' in this list's archive, please? > > 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. no, he is absolutly wrong in demanding everything. Nobody is paid to be here or answer his mails. He asked something nobody was able to or willing to answer. The html mails were a different problem. And now he thinks that his problem was caused by html - instead it was caused by a lack of knowledge/willingness in participation. > > 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? since this list has hundreds, maybe thousands recipients - yes, complaining is justified. > > I understand the fascination with the Ancient Unix Tools, but don't you > think a bit more elasticity is worthwile in 2009? elasticity like - first thinking, than attacking everybody?
