* Mike Martin <memart...@gmail.com> [09-15-15 20:50]: > Sooo .... old, cranky, set in my ways, etc -- how is that a problem?? > > > On 09/15/2015 05:31 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > >On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 05:46:06PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > >>Text is text, flowed is past text as html is text but not. And I believe > >>html has uses only in advertising, not in personal or list email. > >> > >>But I *am* old, cranky, set-in-my-ways, old cranky, .... And I use a text > >>mode email client to read text emails. Very simple. TEXT emails, not > >>html, flowed, pretty-print,.... Next people will be emailing thank-yous > >>for wedding gifts, not personal hand-written notes/cards. > >Or, as I like to say it: > > When God invented email, He intended it to be plain text.
I still believe one should post inline or after quoted text as a book would be read, that email is *only* text, and respect and courtesy are required. Quoted material is to be trimmed leaving only that which is necessary to convey *the* message. Threads are not to be broken. List post are to be replied on list and not also cc'd unless specifically requested or necessary to include individuals who quite possibly would not see the post otherwise. Rules for a list are to be followed. And that these are not negotiable. Most of these you might read as pre-aol. Older readers will recognize. But you will not. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net
