====================================================================== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ======================================================================
On 21 January 2011 23:49, Les Schaffer <schaf...@optonline.net> wrote: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > On 1/21/11 7:39 AM, Louis Proyect wrote: >> >> Any thoughts on this from comrades? Count me as generally against. I don't see the advantage. > > i've been thinking for a while we could start allowing html ... if > enough people are annoyed by it, its easy to turn off again. > > another issue: at the moment, we have it set up so that if a post > contains BOTH plain text and html, we forward only the plain text. i can > turn that off, but the byte count will go up by roughly double for posts > that include both ... and we may have to adjust the max size parameter > if people are going to post large emails with both plain text and html > included. > > so, does byte count matter to anyone anymore?? > Byte count is no big deal for me personally, but even as someone who has never touched emacs in his life, I do still frequently find myself confined to using a terminal, and in that context HTML-alone can be really inconvenient. IMO comrades having to express themselves in text is less inconvenient and is not a bad discipline. There are other accessibility considerations which don't (yet) apply to me, but I try to think of others, and my future self. -AA. -- Ambrose Andrews LPO box 8274 ANU Acton ACT 0200 Australia http://www.vrvl.net/~ambrose/ mailto:ambr...@vrvl.net voicemail:+61_261112936 work:+61_261256749 mobile:+61_415544621 irc:{undernet|freenode|oftc}:znalo xmpp:ambr...@jabber.fsfe.org skype:znalo7 CE38 8B79 C0A7 DF4A 4F54 E352 2647 19A1 DB3B F823 556A 6D19 0904 827C 9DB8 3697 32D0 1E11 403F 2BE1 ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
