It seems to me to be easier for us geeks to turn html "off" in our mail clients than to expect every one to know how to shut it off [selectively] on the send-side for this list. Users of mail clients like Pine or Netscape can still see text only mail if we so choose. I agree that there is a bandwidth issue, but that appears to me to be a relatively small issue. Making the list text-only raises the technical bar a bit higher for a lot of people that do need to be heard on this list. I suggest we take what comes as much as possible, and leave it to the users to control how they read it.

Jesse N. Sinaiko wrote:
Ironically, it seems as if not allowing HTML, or going with plain test
exclusively is, in the end, exclusionary.

Along with creating more work for Andy it keeps some folks, especially as
Andy put it in the Southern Hemisphere, from getting their messages onto the
list.

It seems to me that this alone argues for a looser set of rules.  Plain text
should be encouraged and folks should be educated, but let's not exclude
anyone because their webmail or whatever makes it difficult for them to send
plain test.

Yes, it's a shame that Pine can't read HTML, but the folks who have Pine and
other plain test mail readers will still get everything they are getting
now.


Jesse Sinaiko



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