----- Original Message ----- From: Werner Almesberger Sent: 06/08/11 09:53 PM To: English Qi Hardware mailing list - support, developers, use cases and fun Subject: Re: tuner problems Ron K. Jeffries wrote: > Werner says your messages > are a jumbled mess in his mail program.
Well, my purpose in bringing this up in the chat wasn't to start any public shaming, but rather to satisfy a sense of curiosity regarding how many people would politely be quiet instead of mentioning that elephant in the middle of the room (or the king's clothes, pick you meme :) > You might or might not already know that people > who dislike HTML email *really* dislike > HTML email. We particularly dislike HTML-only mails. What Jane is sending is an interesting combination, though: it's HTML mail that may have the kind of markup that makes it readable in a Web browser, but it is also accompanied by an unsuccessful attempt to render the same text in plain ASCII. What the result looks like is the whole body of the mail being collapsed into a single line (including any text being replied to that was originally properly formatted), with Jane's own reply interspersed in an almost undetectable way. "Almost", because you can sometimes figure it out by reading the whole thing and noticing a change in style, or looking at the mail she replied to, and mentally subtracting the original message from the result. I'm sure a lot gets missed in the process, and us ASCII users probably often decide that it's just not worth the effort. Now, we could just dismiss this as incompetence or ineptitude, but I don't think it would be entirely fair to hold Jane to such low standards. - Werner Hey everyone! Let me know how this message comes out, I finally found the "text only message" option and have selected it. _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
