Re: TECH: HTML posting: possible improvement

OK.  My objection to the policy is on record.  Whatever makes the most
people happy. :)


On 11/6/06, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> 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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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>