Good e-mail list etiquette has always been to send plain text versus
HTML. That is especially true with the various and sundry security
risks that propagate via web-based resources such as those that can be
inadvertently distributed via HTML e-mails. Is it up to the sender to
ensure security for the recipient or to make them happy? No. But it is
good etiquette to avoid HTML. Mike - if you choose not to that is your
choice, as is the choice of others to delete HTML e-mails without
reading them. To each their own. But I see nothing wrong with the FAQ
encouraging list members to not send HTML and helping them figure out
how to do it. It's kind of like asking that PEOPLE DON'T SHOUT WITH
CAPITAL LETTERS. If you CHOOSE TO SHOUT you certainly can, and if you
irritate enough people with it they will eventually disregard you or
blacklist your address.
Frankly, I think the current list software may strip out most HTML
anyway, because I can't recall receiving any fully HTML-based e-mails
for a long, long time. But I still think the FAQ can tell people how to
disable HTML. After all, it is just a Q&A tool, not a commandment.
Rob
Michael Geary wrote:
Guys, nobody cares what email client you use. If you prefer a text based
email client, for security or any other reason, that's entirely your choice.
Where the FAQ errs is in asking people to disable outgoing HTML email. I've
been on this list almost 12 years, and I won't comply with that request. Why
should the FAQ ask anyone else to?
Nobody is going to make a global change in their email settings, disabling a
feature that I and many other people find very useful, just because some
email list they've subscribed to asks them to turn it off.
Now, there certainly could be a *useful* FAQ entry about HTML email, but
what it says would depend on how the email list software actually handles
HTML email. I haven't really tested it myself. Does it pass through HTML
formatting like *italics* and *bold* and
links<http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad>,
or does it only forward the text version?
-Mike
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