[techtalk] No HTML/RTF messages, please!

[Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun]

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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