From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse To: Gareth Bult In-Reply-To: <1110277457.11692.7.camel@squizzey.bult.co.uk> References: <1110043569.11425.63.camel@squizzey.bult.co.uk> <20050307110413.GD2198@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <1110200816.11535.15.camel@squizzey.bult.co.uk> <20050307142402.GC9597@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <1110220494.11445.44.camel@squizzey.bult.co.uk> <20050307190012.GA24412@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <1110226862.29792.149.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> <1110229064.11284.18.camel@squizzey.bult.co.uk> <1110230771.4591.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1110233417.11311.58.camel@squizzey.bult.co.uk> <1110234015.4591.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1110234361.11310.63.camel@squizzey.bult.co.uk> <1110234614.4591.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1110277457.11692.7.camel@squizzey.bult.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 11:05:31 +0000 Message-Id: <1110279932.16158.120.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linux MTD Subject: Re: Re; MTD (2) Block Driver broken List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 10:24 +0000, Gareth Bult wrote: > Like many mailers, mine prefers to send HTML by default. I think you'll find it's configurable. > Occasionally one will forget one is posting to a list where people > have some sort of religious objection to html and forget to uncheck > the appropriate buttons to format as pure text. I don't have a religious objection to HTML. Like I said, there's little cause to prefer HTML over plain text for list traffic (and indeed for most email), and most of the HTML we reject is spam -- being HTML is a fairly good indicator of spam. I spend a _lot_ of time reading email each day, and almost none of it is HTML -- it's plain text, in a typeface I have carefully selected to be easily readable. HTML mail renders differently and is thus harder to read. Not a _lot_ harder, mind you, but it's unfamiliar enough that it causes me to stop and look rather than just taking in what it says at a glance. Mostly I don't actually stop and look; mostly I just delete it. I _could_ spend some of my time on decoding gratuitously HTML-encoded mail, or I could spend all of my available time on the people who can be bothered to be polite. My time is limited enough at the moment anyway that I really don't want to waste it. -- dwmw2