I kindly beg all mail sending list subscribers to follow our list guidelines:
- please do not send HTML formatted mails to the list, just plain text
- please place the new text below the quoted part of previous mail text _and_ reasonable strip down the part you quote
Since the last few days the amount of annoying top-postings and HTML formatted list mails grew rapidly. This is why I send this request. Please take yourself the time to produce list mails which are comfortable to handle by the readers and those you address to in the hope to get help or other comments. If you don't take the time and care, then why should anybody else care for your sorrows or thoughts? Please keep that in mind. Thank you.
Regards
Alexander
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 16:29 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
I kindly beg all mail sending list subscribers to follow our list guidelines:
please do not send HTML formatted mails to the list, just plain text
please place the new text below the quoted part of previous mail text
_and_ reasonable strip down the part you quote
Especially with the amount of traffic this list receives lately, I for one simply ignore HTML-formatted mails by now (too lazy to zoom in and out all the time). Same if the context of a mail is so messed up that I twist my brain trying to decypher it.
I believe that if only a few competent people on this list do the same, the amount of such "wrong" postings would be significantly reduced in no time...
HaJo
HaJo Schatz wrote:
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 16:29 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
I kindly beg all mail sending list subscribers to follow our list guidelines:
please do not send HTML formatted mails to the list, just plain text
please place the new text below the quoted part of previous mail text
_and_ reasonable strip down the part you quote
Especially with the amount of traffic this list receives lately, I for one simply ignore HTML-formatted mails by now (too lazy to zoom in and out all the time). Same if the context of a mail is so messed up that I twist my brain trying to decypher it.
I believe that if only a few competent people on this list do the same, the amount of such "wrong" postings would be significantly reduced in no time...
I won't respond to postings by people who, having been asked not to post in HTML, persist in doing so, but I'm more forgiving of newbies.
Paul.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Howarth" paul@city-fan.org To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" fedora-list@redhat.com Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 8:28 PM Subject: Re: no HTML list mails - no top-posting - strippedquotation *please*
HaJo Schatz wrote:
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 16:29 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
I kindly beg all mail sending list subscribers to follow our list guidelines:
please do not send HTML formatted mails to the list, just plain text
please place the new text below the quoted part of previous mail text
_and_ reasonable strip down the part you quote
Especially with the amount of traffic this list receives lately, I for one simply ignore HTML-formatted mails by now (too lazy to zoom in and out all the time). Same if the context of a mail is so messed up that I twist my brain trying to decypher it.
I believe that if only a few competent people on this list do the same, the amount of such "wrong" postings would be significantly reduced in no time...
I won't respond to postings by people who, having been asked not to post in HTML, persist in doing so, but I'm more forgiving of newbies.
Paul.
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Thanks Paul, I take advantage of this chance. Please, tell me is there any mistakes in THIS post. so that I can make sure or get corrected myself in posting properly. Thanks Mohan
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 01:40:22 AM +0300, Kumara (kumara.jayaweera@damad.com) wrote:
- please place the new text below the quoted part of previous mail text
_and_ reasonable strip down the part you quote
...
I take advantage of this chance. Please, tell me is there any mistakes in THIS post. so that I can make sure or get corrected myself in posting properly.
Only the fact that you forgot what was written above, that is don't resend to anybody and to the list archive a bunch of already received (sometimes paid) text.
Thanks, Marco F.
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 00:27:50 +0100, M. Fioretti mfioretti@mclink.it wrote:
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 01:40:22 AM +0300, Kumara (kumara.jayaweera@damad.com) wrote:
- please place the new text below the quoted part of previous mail text
_and_ reasonable strip down the part you quote
...
I take advantage of this chance. Please, tell me is there any mistakes in THIS post. so that I can make sure or get corrected myself in posting properly.
Only the fact that you forgot what was written above, that is don't resend to anybody and to the list archive a bunch of already received (sometimes paid) text.
Thanks, Marco F.
-- Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it Red Hat & Fedora for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/
None can love freedom heartily but good men; the rest love not freedom but license. John Milton
Hi
Is this mail i just sent now in HTML or plain text, i do not see an option in gmail to choose between the two.
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 02:38:22 +0200, Mark Panen mark.panen@gmail.com wrote:
Is this mail i just sent now in HTML or plain text, i do not see an option in gmail to choose between the two.
I don't think there is an option to send mail from gmail as HTML. Messages written in gmail are plain text.
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 02:38:22 AM +0200, Mark Panen (mark.panen@gmail.com) wrote:
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 00:27:50 +0100, M. Fioretti mfioretti@mclink.it wrote:
Only the fact that you forgot what was written above, that is don't resend to anybody and to the list archive a bunch of already received (sometimes paid) text.
Is this mail i just sent now in HTML or plain text, i do not see an option in gmail to choose between the two.
1) You sent a plain text message, but, it would seem, 2) without bothering to read the one you replied to, which asked just to NOT repost whole already received messages
Marco