[techtalk] No HTML/RTF messages, please!
Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun
ccovingt at one-eyed-alien.net
Thu Oct 28 08:37:23 EST 1999
On Oct 28, Caitlyn Martin conjectured:
> It is really bad netiquette, particularly on a UNIX list, to send messages
> in HTML or RTF format. *Please* use plain text. At work, where I have to
> use Microsoft software I can read them, but have you ever seen what HTML
> looks like in KMail? Most text-based e-mail programs?
>
> Many lists I belong to bounce HTML messages. Be kind to those of us who
> don't use Microsoft stuff or Netscape 100% of the time, OK?
>
I want to second that!!
I *know* I already asked that people turn off HTML and stuff. It does
annoying things in pine. It shows up as a 2-part message: 1 part plain
text; 1 part HTML, please press v to view or save this as a file. It
wastes space etc.
Conni
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