Re: [Fsfe-uk] Administrivia: html duplicates

[Neil Darlow]

Hi,

MJ Ray wrote:
> Apart from the Facebook claim, I think the above are all repeats.  Not
> saying one way or the other on their merit, but please can someone
> post evidence to support any of them if you know it.

I use Thunderbird and send only plain-text e-mail but I accept HTML 
formatted e-mail without prejudice. I have *never* received any adverse 
comment from anyone who sent an HTML formatted e-mail and received a 
plain-text reply.

I suggest that there's too much debate raging on this issue. If you want 
an argument in any direction you could say that performing HTML to 
plain-text conversion, at submission, potentially makes the list content 
available to a wider audience without issues of redundancy and is more 
resource friendly (I won't introduce the Green angle).

We should credit new list members with more intelligence than some 
previous posts suggest. I think they are more concerned with the content 
of the replies they get, over any formatting policy, and I doubt a 
plain-text response to a HTML submission is going to upset them at all.

My 2 pence.

Regards,
Neil Darlow