On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Ed W wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> You appear to be using KMail which supports html mail just fine... > > > > which ive disabled so i dont have to deal with it. replies/quoting > > easily break and destroy followups. all so people can force their > > preferred viewing font on others. > > Actually, getting all technical on you for a moment, but at least in > theory HTML has the ability to properly support replies and quoting as > part of it's standard
i'm not saying that html isnt capable, just that the reality is, the clients that generate it do so in an unusable manner. it is also useless and hates a lot on transforming into other random interfaces > > if you want to make the argument on a non-technical list, go for it. > > open source technical lists (such as this one) have all banned html. get > > with it or dont post. > > I already nailed my colours to the mast as someone who cares (remember I > serve customers with only 20KB/minute of bandwidth!) - I was pointing > out that this debate pops up time and time again and basically it's like > trying to hold back the tide... sorry, i didnt mean for my reply to sound like i was directing it at you. the answer was meant in general. there is no discussion to have as we already have a policy and it isnt going to change. -mike
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