Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote: > > DeMoN LaG wrote: >
>>Kill the HTML. It looks horrible in text only readers. Don't post >>binaries to non binary newsgroups, it's rude > > Let me ask a "really Dumb question" it hasn't stopped me before. Please > explain why a person that is using a strictly text only reader such as > Newswatcher (for mac) is posting in a newsgroup for/ and working on > Mozilla which in addition to a web Browser is capable of sending > receiving html formatted mail? I read the newspaper from a large city that's some distance from the small town I live in. It's a much better paper than the local one since its large circulation pays for more reporters and more pages of print. Yet when I'm looking for an apartment or a used car I also buy the local paper. Gosh, why should I do that? Doesn't the paper delivered to my door have a classifieds section? Yes, but the local paper is more suitable for buying local items. Just because Mozilla provides a bunch of different things doesn't mean that people who like and support one part of the suite must use and like every other part. People get comfortable using their old software, and *gasp* sometimes that other software is better at some things than Mozilla--which is, after all, unfinished software. > Having Html in mail i do not offensive. Obviously some people like it. But in Mozilla newsgroups we've always discouraged HTML posts and binary attachments (http://www.mozilla.org/community.html#ground-rules). > I post here. I have opinions. If you don't agree with mine fine. But, I get > the feeling that unless you are or buddies with only 5-10 certain people > your opion is not taken seriously. I'd say the number is a lot higher than that, but basically true. Everyone has opinions, but there are a lot fewer people who do the work. The trick is to convince the people who do the work and persuade them that implementing your opinion is more important than whatever else it is they're working on. That's the way open source projects work. (Netscape, on the other hand, is interested in the opinions of end-users, but I doubt they use mozilla newsgroups in their market research. For one thing the Mozilla community is somewhat different than the typical Netscape user.) -Dan Veditz
