On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote: > Am I the only one here that sees this is a stupid and completely irrelevant > thread? HTML mail is like farting when you meet the Queen - you just don't do > it. There isn't a rule about it, it's not an exam question and there never > was a formal process that came up with it. But if you do start raising one > cheek to split the crack and let rip, the butler might come along nicely and > ask you not to. At which point you should say "um, gee, thanks, I didn't know > that..."
That was a really dumb analogy. It conveniently ignores the problem and blows the situation out of proportion. As I said, very many mail readers _default_ to html mails, and a significant part of user to user contact is happily oblivious to it. It just doesn't come up in everyday parlance. Forgive this one seething reaction to your uncalled-for ridiculous holier-than-thou attitude, but the Internet didn't stop growing 10 years ago. It doesn't matter that there isn't a formal rule. What matters is there is no way to find out about the de-facto rule in one of the standard use-cases of a mailing list - which is to just ask a few quick questions and filter out any irrelevant topics.
