[oclug] Stormix troubles...

[Tom Goulet]

>By whose definition does formated mail "not belong"?

Mine.

>What make me ticked is that of the myriad of mail lists (linux related) I belon
g
>to, -only- this one insists on some stupid policy of *no html mail*. Yet many o
f
>you spam us with PGP signatures which ultimately have very little use in a
>mailing list. Funny to note that I have been sending html mail for a long time
>now and gee, i dont seem to have been dumped from anybodys list judging by the
>response you all make.

Eh, if this thread continues I'll have a better time to justify and
encourage the use of PGP signed e-mails.

>lets lose the hipocracy here; you all sit and claim that linux is about
>"choice". Now it seems I have the ability to choose only so long as it conforms
>to your idea of what is correct.

You have choice.  You may send HTML e-mail to this list.  And I may
learn procmail just to send you to /dev/null.  I'd rather not do that,
because I happen to like reading what you post.

If e-mail was run by Microsoft; your client could only send
Microsoft-HTML mail to the list, and your client would crash when I sent
you plain text.  That's what we mean by choice.

I also note that you have not asked me why I think only plain text is
acceptable in e-mail.

TomG
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