Mark Knecht posted on Mon, 17 Apr 2017 21:15:00 -0700 as excerpted: > Geez Duncan, get over it.
I was over it. One sentence request as I was answering the question that was asked. That was it. Until someone (not you!) questioned that one sentence request and I needed to fill in the reasoning behind it. > I don't send HTML by default and you know that. +1 =:^) > If you don't want to read and respond then don't, but get over the idea > that you alone are the keeper of what's right for 7 billion people on > the Internet and move on. I have a simple rule. When I reply to an HTML mail, I ask that people turn it off. But only if I'm replying for other reasons, and it's normally short and polite. As it was here. (Tho sometimes I explain why in the first post too, but I still try to keep it brief and to the point... relatively, for my posts, anyway.) If it happens repeatedly, I may killfile. But I don't at first, because I've found the short request, making people aware of the problem, is often enough to get them to fix it, especially if I'm answering as best I can whatever else at the same time. =:^) FWIW, I actually believe people have the /right/ to post in html if they wish, but I have the right to ask them to stop, too, and to killfile if they ultimately don't. Fortunately, I don't often need to do so, because as I said, most people aren't too assertive of that /right/ if asked nicely by someone trying to answer their posted question at the same time. Of course it sometimes gets a longer discussion going too or instead, as it did here. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
