On Tuesday 22 November 2005 00:10, Angus Leeming wrote: > > I think that the *real* point is that this is a religious issue. If you > write to an email list asking for help yet use html then you are likely to > be ignored by those who have taken the religious position that html email > is evil. Since this religion is followed by a very large percentage of > Open Source developers, you're removing many of those best able to answer > your question from your pool of answerers. It sort of defeats your purpose > for writing in the first place --- to ask for help.
But so it does requiring the messages to be in (some sort of) english. Every group has its set of rules, even if sometimes not written. This seems to be one more example of that kind. :-) > The most coherent reason I've found to justify this religion is that html > email totally screws up many mail archiving softwares. Maybe that's a > reason to improve these softwares, but that doesn't really help us now. > Not posting html is today's solution. 1) C'mon you are not telling me that phishing is a false problems, are you? So if we want to play safe we should be restricted to internal content. 2) I have a distinct taste for high resolution screens, my laptop is 1680*1050. (I know about those of 1920*1200). Most of the html messages I have seen look so different between them as they assume different sizes, different fonts... One solution to part of this is to control the css stylesheet used to render the page. I can do it, but then I defeat the reasons for html usage. > Having said that, who said that religions need to be coherent? Not only that but they should not. It is always a question of referential. -- José Abílio
