On 2006 May 22, at 6:50 AM, Alan Bowman wrote:
Rod,
the list doesn't actually frown on HTML as such, it's just that
often it can show up as a confusing mess on some systems and, more
importantly - the use of HTML allows for and seems to encouraged
the embedding of images and the like into e-mail messages.
When such e-mails are processed by the majordomo software it
doesn't see a nice photo of animated gif etc. It sees the code, and
lots of it. Fluxlist has an email character limit of something
like 4000. an ascii file easily surpasses that limit and simply
gets bounced.
I used to check all the bounced mail but it just got too time
consuming.
I certainly don't object to HTML -in some cases. like cecil's piece
it makes sense to use it - but there's always the risk of the email
being bounced.
anyway I hope this cleared up the reasons for the no HTML requests.
cheers, on behalf of DAD
Thanks Dad!
I just remember the old days of guys like Ken, for example,
complaining about other's use of HTML. I think in those days
the complaints were probably justified because our Digest-subscribing
Listpatrons used to have to wade thru a whole mess of indecipherable
gobbledygook (more so than usual) to get to the actual Brecht vs The
Samurai
scruff that we enjoy posting here.
OK, so a leeetle bit is OK.
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