On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Raja Guha wrote:
> > But banning! isn't that a little heavy-handed. Not heavy handed at all. I quite often simply unsubscribe from lists that allow HTML, viruses, or other file attachments to be sent in the list. > For example, I might want to post a rather longish document with > internal content links at the top of it. That seems innocent and useful > enough ! Get a website and provide a link in an email! Websites are cheap/free/easy. There is no legitimate reason to send HTML in an email -- there are so many better ways to accomplish the same thing without causing people so much hassle. > Accessability: > ------------- > HTML works fine on Mozilla 1.0(downloaded and default compiled) on SuSE. You should look up the word. Giving a brand name of a specific program is the opposite of accessability. > And there are filters (html2txt) that convert HTML to text which may be > invoked automatically by the clients mail handler. Why are you making the people doing things right do the work, rather than you write the email more properly? > By your logic my ISP should ban all anonymous FTP - in which case I > could never have downloaded Mozilla and would never have had the > opportunity for such fine debates! There is no logic in your statement, so I can't refute it. > Accessability, security - these should be the resposibility and CHOICE > of the end-users - both the senders and the receivers. You have polled all the users. If one says *NO* and you send HTML, you are *REMOVING* choice, not honouring choice. > Html is a commonly accepted means of creating complex documents. Which are then posted to websites. > Email and lists are common forms of exchanging info and documents. And quite commonly contain URL's referencing HTML documents. > Html should be always be allowed unless there is some other absolute > imperative. This is simply not the case. I'll leave things there. The list owners need to decide this. If it is decided that HTML and other attachments are allowed, and these attachments become common, I'll just unsubscribe. No problem for me - it will lower the amount of email I read each day ;-) --- Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> See http://weblog.flora.ca/ for announcements, activities, and opinions Submission to Innovation Strategy | No2Violence in Politics http://www.flora.ca/innovation-2002.shtml | http://www.no-dot.ca/ -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html
