Re: A89: OT: Sieze offtopic discussion
[Prev][Next][Index][Thread]
Re: A89: OT: Sieze offtopic discussion
You find me a person who is going to nit pick their messages to put in only
the relavent quotes. If your watching the thread you can see what needs to
be looked at and what doesn't. It's not worth the extra time to check. Your
all good programmers. If you want to instill rules on us you write the
fucking e-mail program and if it's good we'll use it. And if you were to try
to remove someone from the list for being Offending you are gonna have to
figure out a way to detect when they go to one of the trillion free e-mail
addresses. If you complain about majordomo dont use it. Netscape reader
(unix/win) and outlook (win) are both exelent for the proper viewing of
mail. And they both support all new languages. Endora even if you've got a
486 and speed hurts you.
Geeze people it's all complaints with you guys.
----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Noveck <noveck@pluto.njcc.com>
To: <mha@sollentuna.net>; <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 11, 1999 5:34 PM
Subject: RE: A89: OT: Sieze offtopic discussion
>
> > > Also, posting HTML is not disallowed but it can bother a lot
> > > of people.
> > > Please refrain from posting HTML.
> >
> > The new revision of the mailing list policies (which have been sitting
> > unpublished for too long - I just forgot the appropriate commands)
> contains:
> >
> > * Please post your mails as plain text. Do not use RTF or HTML-mail,
since
> > many mail program don't handle it, and many people do not want it
>
> Thanks, Magnus - I was just asking Nick if this update could be added.
>
> A few comments:
>
> 1.) You might want to add that your mailing list software - majordomo -
does
> not support HTML email (try checking the digest version of the A89 list).
> Can you have the software check for any messages that have the
> "Content=HTML/Text" or whatever string it is and reject them?
>
> 2.) Could you also add the following clause:
>
> * When replying to a message, please only quote the relevant part of the
> message. Do not include old signatures or lines of unimportant
information
> in the reply, as this is disruptive to recipients of the digest format.
>
> I've received 11 digests today -- just because people quoted the ENTIRE
> evolution debate many times over, thus generating several hundred
kilobytes
> of unnecessary text. All the relevant info could be reduced to 2 digests
> for the day.
>
> 3.) How about an address we can contact to report offending posters?
> Whenever I try and ask anyone to obey these guidelines - either in a
polite
> manner or in the most obnoxious way I can think of - I get a reply along
the
> lines of "screw you, I don't care about others. They can get my mail
> software and receive the messages in the same format I do and spend hours
> each day on the internet to read all my junk" (to paraphrase serial)
>
> Thanks again, Magnus. . .
>
> -Scott
>
>
>
References: