Ah, Jane, far be it from me to accuse you of being snarky. You're one of the more level-headed people anyone could hope to know.
Thanks for giving the historical background. It looks like the no-HTML request was sound advice at the time. But times have changed, HTML email has become much more commonplace, the mailing list software knows how to deal with it - and certainly it's the mailing list software's *responsibility* to deal with it. So what was once good advice may now just be a source of divisiveness - witness this discussion. :-) In the interest of making both newcomers and old-timers feel welcome, I think it would be best if the FAQ simply advised people that HTML formatting is not preserved, instead of asking us to disable a feature that many of us are unwilling to give up. Thanks, -Mike On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:32 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote: > Snarky? How can "Please don't." possibly be construed as snarky? > That was probably one of the nicer things I've written in all the > years I've been here. > > At the time that I put that in, I vaguely remember there being a > problem with some e-mail clients and the digests if people sent HTML > and from AOL in particular. > > Take it out; leave it in. It's all the same to me. > > Jane > > > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Michael Geary <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It's a non-issue, but the FAQ makes it an issue - and it's a bit snarky > > about it. This is harmful to the purpose of the mailing list, which is to > > provide a useful forum that welcomes newcomers to exchange ThinkPad > > information. > > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
