Mark David Dumlao wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Eric Martin <freak4u...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I've seen plenty of emails going around requesting people not top-post >> and not to post via html. I don't think it's as big of a problem as >> this thread makes it out to be. While I'm sure some people do ignore >> posts that fall into those categories, there's not really much you or I >> can do about it. >> > I don't like defeatist attitudes just because they're related to > community changes. There are certain parts of the community that can > be readily improved (typically relating to centralized rules, FAQs, > etc) and certain parts that are very difficult to improve (typically > relating to the users' attitudes). > > If someone makes even a passing note of this on the website, then my > single bug report might do the work of several dozen "dont post in > html" mails over time. > > >> Do you honestly believe that people who ignore html emails are doing >> something different than you for ignoring any post you don't care >> about? That argument can be easily silenced when you realize that some >> people "don't care" for html formatted email. >> > That's a pretty easy question to answer and substantiate. Yes. Posts > are typically discriminated upon based on their content. On the other > hand, html posts are discriminated based upon their formatting. This > means questions that people would otherwise have answered get ignored. > Content discrimination is a null transaction. Formatting > discrimination is at some times a null transaction and at some times > negative (friction). > > I looked at your original post, the person who replied to you did so in a concise manner that he doesn't like html emails.
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-...@lapostes.net> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:06:26PM +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > > > >> > > er, anyone? >> > > > > You may try by sending a mail using the text format instead of the HTML > > one. I don't read more than one line when it's written in HTML. I > > suspect that a lot of contributors do the same here. > > > > Please, conform to the netiquette. > That was one of the coldest, most invisible, and hardest to troubleshoot communication errors I've ever seen. I don't even know where to begin. I don't know if he could have made that any clearer. That being said, I'm done contributing to spam on the list. Please bottom post and post in a text only format. For many people (myself included) this is the first mailing list they joined. Nobody was handed a manual up front, for the most part you learn as you go.
