"Jon Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also, I'm not convinced by someone else's argument which seemed to be > > roughly that several non-free-software MUAs (Outlook, Thunderbird (OK, > > so there's IceDove), MSN, Googlemail, Yahoo) send HTML by default. > > Their operators should fix that configuration error IMO. > > That was mine :) Do you really think we should alienate people who are > considering joining fsf-uk before they even have chance to speak to > us?
I don't see a simple request as alienating, nor on-server-conversion. It's far better than a few people flaming them to hell. > There are no "operators" in the modern world (this isn't Tron!), I was trying to side-step the whole owner/SaaS debate. I think it's for MSN, Googlemail, Yahoo to fix their webmails. Sorry for the confusion. (I doubt they will, as html sells more expensive ads. Oh, and I see a Tron/MCP analogue for those webmail companies...) > everyone uses computers and 99% of those people use rich formatted > messages (email, social networking and IM), Social networking - at least facebook's Inbox system seems to be plain text (with a few small add-ons like link-sniffing, but not rich text). > let's not rule those people out of our fsf-uk discussions. I don't want anyone to be ruled out, but I don't see why it's better to rule out plain-texters than htmlers. > (If they even find us.. as > forums and social networking are where they will be..). Anyone created > a Facebook GNU page? ;) There are many groups, including:- http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2343908713 http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2347654509 http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2371833611 http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6696368842 [...] > I don't mean to drag this debate on, but you seem to be responsible > for the list admin! Other than above, I don't think this is moving the debate on any. I explained my next steps at the top: wait for Friday, then count. Sending more repeats will not help get html here. Convincing other subscribers might, but I doubt repeats will do that. Regards, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+44-844-4437-237 - Webmaster-developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, consumer and workers co-operative member http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ - Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
