On 26.08.2012 10:35, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Martin wrote:
On 25/08/2012 23:24, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
To the mailing list admin,
What is the policy with regards to HTML messages in this mailing
list? I find it very annoying when messages to mailing lists are in
HTML - this seems to be the general consensus in most mailing lists.
I was under the impression that only plain text message was allowed
in this list too.
Could you please clarify this.
People that send multi-part HTML messages...just to list a few.
While I am not the admin, I did a quick search (aprox 17000 msg of the
last 18 month): about 2600 or 15% seem to include html.
Including mails of many developers, Including some of mine.
IMHO that rule should be seen as an ancient relict (so long as mails
are at least mixed, and have a plain-text part too). Even mobile
phones have the power and cheap and fast enough connectivity to deal
with html mail.
I'd suggest two exceptions.
i) Messages containing any sort of "phone home", e.g. an embedded
image held on the originator's server, should be frowned upon.
ii) Attachments other than alternative representations should be
frowned upon. Otherwise we'll start receiving full-size projects,
related binaries, and- eventually- unrelated binaries and potential
malware.
Attachments etc. are fine in a "pull" medium such as a forum or Mantis.
They aren't fine in a "push" medium where in most cases they're
transferred in their entirety to the recipient's systems before he has a
chance to decide what's relevant.
At least on the fpc lists attachements are restricted to AFAIK 20kb so
that you can still send example projects if you have questions (mails
containing larger attachments need to be approved by a mailing list
admin). AFAIK the lazarus lists don't have such a restriction... (I'm
not sure though)
I personally am perfectly fine posting attachments here (e.g.
screenshots that show an error, etc), because I prefer the mailing lists
instead of the forums...
Regards,
Sven
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