[38544] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: HTML-format postings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Suiter)
Wed Jun 6 20:52:22 2001
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 17:52:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: Todd Suiter <todd@space4rent.com>
To: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
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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.....
>
>
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>
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