I've recently been traveling to some remote areas in El Salvador, Bangladesh and India, and I've had no problem accessing HTML-format emails via equipment that is decidedly not state-of-the-art. I think you can safely change the policy.
AJM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AJ Mollo & Associates Management Consulting to Professional & NonProfit Organizations Internet & Multimedia Marketing & Communications Celebrity Development Phone: 203.926.1199 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andy Carvin Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 11:07 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 -- ----------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------- _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
