RE: Please turn off your HTML and cut out Ov

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Gary,

I am not sure which is worse the excessive quoting and HTML or the equally
excessive number of posts complaining about it which repeat each other.
Since it is the list owners request and rule, it should be for the list
owner to enforce it and obtain compliance with the rules and not each of the
subscribers to engage in vigilante actions of filing on list complaints and
condemnations.  If individual subscribers wish to tell the violator of the
violation, they should do it via private emails and not on list where they
wind up not only wasting bandwidth but also everyone's time.

We have had this conversation on the list in the past many time and will
probably have it many times in the future as well.  I am sure that those
that get the digest find it a problem, a pain and annoying; but that may
very well be one of the costs of doing business when you opt for the digest
form.

By the way this is not meant to be directed toward you personally; I am only
using your post as a vehicle for putting in my two cents worth. :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-epson-inkjet@leben.com
[mailto:owner-epson-inkjet@leben.com]On Behalf Of Gary L. Hunt
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 8:10 PM
To: epson-inkjet@leben.com
Subject: Re: Please turn off your HTML and cut out Ov


Yes, but.....
Your point is well-taken, and it would be really nice not having
to plow through postings with quotes of quotes of quotes.  And
my email program handles HTML just fine (although the way I
have it set, it appears to display every HTML posting in plain text
also, which is annoying.)  But the original posting pointed out that
it's the list owner who asks for no HTML postings (apparently for
technical reasons, but whether or not isn't the point.)  Unless someone
else is proposing to take over providing the resources and the labor
to operate and maintain this list, I don't see that it matters whether
any of us think "e-mail programs that don't display HTML properly"
are dinosaurs or not.  Not that my opinion matters one iota either, but
I find HTML email to be a waste of my time--it means there are a lot of
fancy signatures and little graphics that make it harder to find the
content in the messages.  (I get this list in digest form--that wouldn't
be nearly so much of a concern for someone getting individual messages
where the signature comes at the bottom.)

Gary Hunt <glh@datawav.net>


>Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 08:56:06 -0800
>From: "Paul D. DeRocco" <pderocco@ix.netcom.com>
>Subject: RE: Please turn off your HTML and cut out Ov
>
>I think most people reply in HTML mode simply because modern mail programs
>display it properly, so it's easy to fail to notice. I wonder how many
>people are really using dinosaur e-mail programs that don't display HTML
>properly.
>
>To me, a more important point would be to get people to trim their quoting
>of the message they're answering, to the bare minimum needed to understand
>the response. See below...

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Turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate
subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions.

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Turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate
subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions.

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