> if only Chip, Tony, Tim, and a few other prolific "answerers" > would adopt that as their own policy, to ignore TPers, that > would probably take care of about 80% of possible replies. :D
If it's a direct question regarding my reply, I tend to rejigger top-posting on the first instance (hey, copying into Vim makes it fairly easy) with a warning. Subsequent TPing in the thread or TP replies to somebody else's posts tend to get ignored pretty regularly unless it's a particularly tantalizing topic. Cocky repeat offenders that ignore warnings get unceremoniously plonked. So far I've only had to plonk a handful of folks from the Vim ML. As for HTML mail, I have Thunderbird (and Outlook at work) configured to only display plain-text, and I have a filter in place that flags mail over 9kb (most HTML mail) from unknown senders as junk. If the offender's mail fails to include plain-text, it shows up as empty and I just delete it. If they do bloat it out to include both a plain-text and an HTML version, it's liable to get dumped in my Junk folder where I may or may not notice/care. > But if garish html emails, attachments, etc., were to be > banned as part of official list policy (message-size > considerations, readability issues[1], etc.), then anyone who > would willfully ignore those guidelines might very well > warrant banishment from the list. This is one of those things that could be filtered fairly easily at the mailserver level -- if a post includes an text/html mime-type, simply drop the email or send a warning email to the poster that HTML is prohibited on the mailing list. Catching top-posting is a little more complex, but filters can be created to do it. It would certainly make John's life easier on the list. :) (BTW, Thanks, John -- I appreciate your unrelenting reminders. Don't let the nay-sayers get you down) > [1] Blind folx who use text-to-speech modules can have > garbage coming out of the speaker with html emails most with whom I've corresponded on the blinux[*] mailing list tend to use a MUA that simply ignores, strips, or converts HTML emails so they don't have to hear/feel HTML markup in all its hideous glory. -tim [*] Blind Linux Users mailing list -- where both interspersed posting and top posting are used frequently. The one that disorients me most is the "*no* quoting" replies. :) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
