[MR] attachments, HTML and other drek that make the list unbearable to digest readers

[Siegfried Sebastian Faust]

Morghana, I find it odd that you are asking desperately for people to not 
use HTML or Fancy Formatting ... when your own message was sent in exactly 
that manner, in a MIME document with a different font ...

Siegfried


At 12:13 AM 9/17/2001 -0400, Morghana at aol.com wrote:
>Sorry to seem like I'm picking on you.... I'm not, and I'm sorrowed at 
>this good gentle's passing .... but this was just one more of a near 
>constant stream of attachments, HTML-formatted "stuff", or a response  to 
>a post, that didn't bother to cut off most of what they were responding 
>to--especially the headers and extraneous junk.
>
>Folks, for those of us using plain text email readers (I am, by choice), 
>this stuff turns into reams and reams of pure unreadable garbage.  Its 
>especially bad in DIGEST form, because one person's pale aqua background 
>color and font choices then forces the rest of the digest to the same 
>format.... resulting in digests that are, to be blunt.... worthless and 
>unreadable.
>
>I know it has been posted *many times* to this list... but I'm going to 
>bring it up once more......  NO ATTACHMENTS, HTML or FANCY 
>FORMATTING.   The first belongs in a file archive... the latter two belong 
>on web pages, not in email.
>
>Courtesy gets brought up a lot here.  Please read the FAQs for the list 
>and out of sheer courtesy, abide by them.
>
>With digests becoming unreadable, and therefore worthless....  the list 
>holds virtually no value for those who aren't using/choose not to use an 
>email client affected by security issues.
>
>~Morghana
>
>
>>--part1_10e.529e850.28d64fdc_boundary
>>Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="Directions to Umstead.doc"
>>Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>>Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Directions to Umstead.doc"
>
>
>
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Lord Siegfried Sebastian Faust    Baronial Web Minister & Archery Marshal
Barony of Highland Foorde        http://highland-foorde.atlantia.sca.org/