[MR] text vs HTML email

[Tanner Lovelace]

gbonar at auspex.com wrote:

> Why fight it.  You are going to lose.  People want HTML email.

I'm sorry I didn't see this sooner, I've got family visiting
right now.

Anyway, as list administrator, I can say for certain that
he *will not* lose, at least not on this list.

It is the official policy of the Merry Rose that HTML
e-mail is NOT appropriate for this list.  (It is also
the policy that binary posts, i.e. images, and virus
warnings are not appropriate either.)  We make some
minor exceptions, for the moment, for people who's
e-mail client won't do anything but HTML e-mail
(i.e. AOL), but only until we get a better plan in
place (psstt.. Kevin Maxson, I need to talk to you
about that....).  There are many reasons for this.
One is that some people read their e-mail using text
clients like pine.  But, the main reason has nothing
to do with that. Rather, it is that when the digest
is put together, it automatically assumes that all
the e-mails are text and if someone sends HTML e-mail,
it *does not* show up as HTML, but rather it shows
up as HTML source, which looks incredibly ugly.
There is no way around this.  If you don't like it,
try writing your own mailing list program.

The Merry Rose is a *text only* list.  It has always
been one, and it will always be one.  Period.  End
of discussion.

Lord Kendrick Wayfarer
Listkeeper, Merry Rose
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Tanner Lovelace | lovelace at wayfarer.org | http://wtl.wayfarer.org/
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