Re: The posting of HTML format messages to this List!!!!

[Michael <mutk@ozemail.com.au>]

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>Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 07:13:40 -0400
>From: "Jesse W. Asher" <jasher1@tampabay.rr.com>
>To: netfilter@lists.samba.org
>Subject: Re: The posting of HTML format messages to this List!!!!
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>And why should people continue to use an older paradigm rather than 
>using a newer one?  Are you suggesting that perhaps we should all go 
>back to using ASCII editors instead of word processors?
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I didn't want to start any flame war here.

Please take what I say with good grace when I say that you are 
surprisingly ignorant.

I said I receive the daily digests that are compiled and distributed to 
my email address from netfilter mailing list. If you had ever received 
these you would realise what I mean . It is a list of all the messages 
posted to the list, one after the other in one long message. It is not 
possible to view them in any  way properly rendered if people post in 
HTML. It just doesn't work.

If you view the mailing list via 
http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/netfilter/2002-June/023640.html for 
example, crap HTML encoded messages are a big mess.

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>My response to this is instead of asking everyone else to limit 
>themselves perhaps you should either upgrade your mail reader to one 
>that handles HTML or come to the conclusion that the rest of the world 
>would prefer to live in a richer email environment and learn to live 
>with it.  HTML in email is here to stay and, I for one, will not go back.
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My email client is Mozilla 0.9.9. It has no trouble displaying HTML 
encoded messages. If a *properly* encoded singular email message arrives 
it is displayed correctly.

If a long list of email messages, one after the other, some plain text, 
some html, is received (Like a netfilter Digest ) the rendering is 
impossible.

Do you get it now??? I did say please....

BTW, are you twelve years old?? Former Web TV user??


Cheers,
Michael