Subject:
|
re: RE
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.robotics.handyboard
|
Date:
|
Thu, 11 Feb 1999 21:52:29 GMT
|
Original-From:
|
Fred G. Martin <[fredm@media]stopspam[.mit.edu]>
|
Viewed:
|
935 times
|
| |
|
|
hi all,
my take on the email format issue is that nearly everything should be
handled on the client side. in other words, write your filters to deal
with the "re's"; figure out that mail is from the handy board list by
searching for "handyboard@media.mit.edu" in the To: or cc: fields, etc.
the one thing i will insist on is that people turn off HTML formatting
when they post a message to the list. this is for two reasons:
1. if you don't have an HTML capable email client -- and a lot of us
do not -- it's REALLY annoying to scroll through tons of garbage to
get to the content.
2. the archive format of the list isn't HTML friendly.
in my list guidelines, i do mention the HTML issue, and i
occasionally remind people privately when they post an HTML message.
(i admit, the HTML thing is a pet peeve of mine -- i like my email the
old fashioned way, with monospaced formatting, *asterisks* for
emphasis, and UPPER CASE if you are really annoyed. but as list mom i
get to have a few idosyncracies.)
thanks,
fred
|
|
1 Message in This Thread:
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
