On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Mark David Dumlao wrote: <snip> > That was one of the coldest, most invisible, and hardest to > troubleshoot communication errors I've ever seen. I don't even know > where to begin. It's like being in a foreign country and being told, > years later, that wearing shoes there meant "I'm not serious, so > please ignore my opinions.". The funny thing is, I have been > subscribed to this mailing list for maybe 2 years now, mostly just for > asking questions, but I didn't suspect that I was being ignored since > I usually got one or two answers. > > I would like to express must-needed-to-be-expressed frustration, as > there is place for it, and to make aware that that is a serious > problem. > > I am currently searching my subscription info, the gentoo site, or the > mailing list welcome for any hints that html messages are rude or > unwanted. I am having some difficulty finding it, that alone is a > warning sign that the amount of pre-specialization needed to > participate in the community is dangerously prohibitive to the point > where it is almost invisible.
<snip> > This is a _community-wide_bug_, if ever there was a place to file it. > I don't recall it being rude to send html emails anywhere else without > it appearing in bold letters. Had I known, I would have always used > plain formatting. <snip> almost all linux mailing lists - and almost all technical mailing lists have a no-html rule. If you decide that fance formating is more important than readership, you are on your own. Also every month is a lenghty thread where people tell someone to stop using html. You must have skipped that threads.
