Whisper wrote:
> Well I sympathise with the original posters concerns, although they
> have probably gone about it the wrong way.
> No doubt people stupid enough to reply to the whole digest won't get
> the point of anything you say.
It's pretty easy posting to the list (not directed at you Whisper, but
the list in general):
1. Plain-text only. Other mime types are stripped
anyway, so just configure your client to compose
only in plain ol' text. Wrap your messages at 78
characters or less. That worthless blue Arial that
Outlook defaults to is hideous anyway.
2. If you're posting a new thread, send a new message
to the list, don't reply to an existing thread. It
screws up threading for clients that support it,
and it screws up archives.
3. When replying, at least strip out the footers from
the list software. Better yet, quote only the
relevant bits you're replying to, and post your
responses under it. This has been a de facto
standard of this type of communication for years,
long before there was Outlook or webmail.
4. On the topic of Outlook or Outlook Express, get
yourself Outlook Quotefix[1]. It turns Outlook
into a fairly decent client for lists such as
this. Check the site for a good illustration.
I know I'm going to get a bunch of stupid responses about how lazy you
might be, and wtf lol who dose that lol?! If you want people to read
what you've written and expect a response, make it worth their time. It
doesn't take any longer to write a readable post than it does to write
some of the gibberish we see here.
If you want a very good explanation of why this stuff is good for the
health of a list like this, check out http://webdesign-l.com/policies/.
[1] http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/
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