Re: TECH: HTML posting: possible improvement

Hi!

Mark J. Reed writes:
> On 11/6/06, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> > After browsing and searching the Listserv documentation thoroughly, I
> > found an option in the configuration files of the new version that
> > automatically strips HTML from mixed plain text/HTML mails.
>
> That sort of defeats the purpose of posting in mixed mode in the first
> place, doesn't it?  Now even people with HTML-aware mailers will only
> get the plain text version of the message.
Exactly.

The whole point about still asking people to not post in mixed mode
was twofold: a) there is still broken software, and b) information
only visible in HTML is not visible to all the people with MIME-aware,
yet text-only applications.  Therefore, HTML markup it is not desired.
We should still use e.g. asterisks for *emphasis* instead of
<em>emphasis</em> so that all people can see it.

And for Unicode, we now have a working UTF-8 support.  This often is
very helpful, and HTML is not needed for that (although one should be
aware that e.g. IPA is not properly seen my many members).

The new setting automatically lets the poster see how other people
will see the message, noticing e.g. missing markup.  Further, the list
admin does not need to write reminders anymore that HTML and mixed
mode mails are problematic.

I think this is a good! :-)

**Henrik

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