Kevin Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Colin Guthrie opined: >> Kevin, a small point, but it's generally bad karma to send HTML emails >> to mailing lists (certainly techy ones!). You do send a plain text >> portion too but if possible can you configure your mail client to not >> send HTML to this address? > > Oops, knew that so I'll blame an errant KMail setting. ;) > > Not sure that I understand the ant-HTML stance in these broadband days. It did > make sense in the Bad Ol' Days of low speed dial-up but not now. Not wanting to loose the topic here but it's generally a consistency thing. It's easier to read lots of mails when they are all formatted the same, and not when in random fonts with random spacing in random colours etc. Also, some people still use mutt and pine and all the console mailers, (e.g. via an SSH connection), so plain text rules the root still for some techy folks :D Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]