On 5/13/06, cheng long <kevinclcn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, All Why can't I use the HTML format email in the mailing list? I find it very inconviently to show my idea sometimes.
HTML mail is annoying as hell. Different fonts, colours and whatnot makes it a pain to read. Not to mention that the people who tend to use HTML mail are often the same people who tend to top-post and quote other peoples mails in full and have other similarly annoying habbits. Then there's the issue of patches. A patch inline in a plaintext email can be easily commented on, replied to (and quoted in the reply as opposed to an attachment) and the email can easily be saved as-is and fed to `patch'. If a patch is inserted inline in a html mail it may be possible to read and comment on it, but if you save the mail you can't feed it to `patch' due to the HTML crap in it, and if you try to cut'n'paste the patch from the mail it'll most likely end up mangled and useless. HTML is for the web, plain text is for email. -- Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
