On 07.03.2014 12:28, Yann Ylavic wrote:
> Sorry, this was posted from gmail...
Is it written anywhere in the bylaws of this mailing list, that use of HTML is
something to apologize for? With all due sympathies to Reindl's medical
condition, why must we -- in the second decade of the 21st century -- deny
ourselves the means of expression afforded by HTML on this list? He can -- ought
to be able to -- adjust his MUA to use his font-preferences over whatever may be
specified in the incoming email.
I'd ask this question on /any/ mailing list, but it seems especially ironic
among developers of Apache httpd -- software meant to distribute content, that
is most often written in HTML...
Granted, some HTML can be offensive even to the healthy eyes -- and ought to be
viewed as impolite (not that Yann's was anything of the kind). But to request,
as Reindl did, that /all/ postings -- from all participants -- be in plain text,
seems rather overbearing...
> Here is the plain text.
Wouldn't it be better to send such a duplication to Reindl /personally/?
To avoid this becoming a list-wide flame war, I ask for the powers running this
list to convene and hand us the law: either HTML is acceptable (my own
preference), or it is not (in which case it should be bounced back by the
mailing list software with an appropriate message).
-mi
