On Wed 27 Apr 2016, Chris Yate wrote: > To be honest, I'd suggest you ignore the people that whinge about HTML > emails, top-posting, etc. For the 20-something years I've been using the > internet there's always been pedantic arses on mailing lists that would > rather beat people up about the format of emails and people's grammar and > spelling than answer the damn question.
> On 27 Apr 2016, "Andrew Bernard" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Although I started this thread, it was purely because David Wright had > > mentioned the difficulty to another user, as he had to me. I am not the one > > complaining! Wanting to be considerate of all folks on the list I took some > > effort to configure my Outlook in Office 365 to produce the correct output > > for HTML and plain text email with internet quoting style replies. It can > > certainly be done. There is no reason to ask people to stop using Outlook. > > What has changed is that its current default behaviour is the opposite of > > the past, and I was attempting to alert people to that. Even I was unaware. [...] > > In my opinion, internet etiquette would suggest that one be considerate > > of the community of mailing list users, and try to accomodate everyone as > > best one can. I can’t see why this is not desirable. Or perhaps I am > > completely obsolete, and etiquette in general is now considered old > > fashioned. > With all due respect, considerate is as considerate does. Shouting and > screaming because you use some obscure tool that doesn't work the way 99% > of the internet messaging tools in use work, and expect people to be > accommodating of you, isn't considerate. > ...to be clear > > I understand not everyone uses the same tools and we have different needs. > The thing that tends to rile me is the tone of the complaints. I have in the recent past posted (the first being the "Exhibit One" of this thread): "Please can you quote in a way that's visible in text clients, not just HTML ones." "Please configure your client to post a text equivalent of your HTML code." Perhaps you could help me improve the tone of these sentences as I don't want to be accused of shouting and screaming. Cheers, David. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
