DDN members,
As a Vocational Rehabilition professional, I vote to keep messages
posted in plain text. I support this for several reasons...
-Text to Speech engines for visually impaired persons read it easier
-HTML communication can be loaded with malware or malicious scripts
-It reduces bandwidth usage to mailservers all over the internet
-We don't have to put up with stupid 'hot bar' smiley faces!
Thanks, Andy, for all the work you do moderating the list
Bob Johnson
Community Services Director
Productive Alternatives, Inc.
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From: Andy Carvin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 10:07 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [DDN] admin: thoughts on changing policy re: html messages
Hi everyone,
In recent months we've had some problems with getting list members'
messages to the list because of the increasing number of messages in
HTML. Historically, we haven't allowed HTML messages on the list because
of bandwidth limits of some users (an html message contains more than
twice the amount of data of a plain text message). Now, though, more
than half of the messages that people try to post to the list come in
HTML, including from developing countries. Because our list software,
Mailman, cannot automatically strip out HTML, it rejects these messages
if I try to post them. This means that I have to email the author and
ask them to repost in plain text, which they don't always do. So many
messages are not getting posted simply because they're submitted in HTML.
So I'd like to ask for comments from list members about a proposed rule
change regarding HTML messages. The rule change would allow people to
post in HTML, but still not allow attachments, which we block for virus
and bandwidth concerns. Plain text, of course, will still be encouraged,
but members wouldn't be penalized if they didn't comply.
Please let me know what you think. If there's general consensus that
posting in HTML is acceptable to the group, I'll make the rule change in
the FAQ.
thanks,
ac
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Andy Carvin
Program Director
EDC Center for Media & Community
acarvin @ edc . org
http://www.digitaldivide.net
http://www.tsunami-info.org
Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com
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