That would appear to be specific to the Apache httpd project. That's the project that's been around the longest and seen all the Browser wars and the HTML incompatibilities that went on, and with the longest-running community, so it's not surprising that they would make that request.
However I would say that HTML emails are ubiquitous now and it's rare for a list user to be troubled by them. In newer communities such as ours I don't have a problem with HTML emails. Of course we'll be guided by the consensus on that but I imagine most of us would be happy with HTML emails. Richard. On 28 April 2017 at 09:44, Geoff Macartney < [email protected]> wrote: > oops sorry wrong link: https://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html#guidelines > > Geoff > > On Fri, 28 Apr 2017 at 09:42 Geoff Macartney < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > hi Thomas, > > > > Apache ask all projects to use plain text in their emails to help avoid > > spam filters [1]. > > > > [1] https://www.apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#subscribing > > > > > > > > On Fri, 28 Apr 2017 at 09:35 Thomas Bouron < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hi Brooklyn dev. > >> > >> I was wondering if we could change the format of the JIRA's emails we > >> receive on this mailing list? You see, right now, there are in text > format > >> whereas I receive the same ones on my personal email address but they > are > >> in HTML hence bringing all the good styling stuff. > >> > >> I'm asking this because I found very hard to see what exactly has > changed > >> in a ticket, especially if the ticket's message is more than 3 lines > long. > >> When you have a stacktrace in there, it's even worse. > >> > >> I'm guessing we are doing this for indexing purposes but I would like to > >> formally ask if we can switch to HTML, for our sake because I'm sure I'm > >> not the only one felling that way :) > >> > >> Best. > >> -- > >> > >> Thomas Bouron • Senior Software Engineer @ Cloudsoft Corporation • > >> https://cloudsoft.io/ > >> Github: https://github.com/tbouron > >> Twitter: https://twitter.com/eltibouron > >> > > >
