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Re: HTML-format postings
From: Todd Suiter <todd () space4rent com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 17:52:02 -0700 (PDT)
People who top post actually bother you? Is the other way around for me, and several people I know. I always just figured people who bottom posted were too lazy to go back to the top of the mail. Who'd a thunk? HTML, on the other hand, is just not quite right. Sad thing is, in a support role, you have to try and read it, because a percentage of your users aren't quite clueful enough to turn it off. At a large company that I used to work for(a maker of a very popular email program(begins with E) the sysadmins talked to the dev folks into shipping the internal product with Plain Text set instead of HTML. On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, David Lesher wrote:
Unnamed Administration sources reported that Charles Scott said:Am I the only one who objects to HTML-formatted postings on a listserv?...No. I say we make it a requirement to use a text based mailer (pine?) to participate in this list. What else would a real network operator be using anyway?I would welcome a filter/bounce scheme. Next on my "have a little list" is those who top-post. If they can't scroll to the bottom and edit their quotes; I have some special mirror classes to install on them with superglue.... They say the brain adjusts in a few days..... -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz () nrk com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
Current thread:
- HTML-format postings M. David Leonard (Jun 06)
- Re: HTML-format postings Charles Scott (Jun 06)
- Re: HTML-format postings John Butler (Jun 06)
- Re: HTML-format postings David Lesher (Jun 06)
- Re: HTML-format postings Todd Suiter (Jun 06)
- top/bottom posting [Re: HTML-format postings] Mikael Abrahamsson (Jun 06)
- Re: top/bottom posting [Re: HTML-format postings] Pim van Riezen (Jun 06)
- Re: top/bottom posting [Re: HTML-format postings] Todd Suiter (Jun 06)
- Re: top/bottom posting [Re: HTML-format postings] John Payne (Jun 07)
- Re: top/bottom posting [Re: HTML-format postings] Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 07)
- Re: HTML-format postings Charles Scott (Jun 06)
- Re: HTML-format postings Jonas Luster (Jun 06)
- Re: HTML-format postings Todd Suiter (Jun 06)
- Re: HTML-format postings John Fraizer (Jun 06)