[wellylug] WellyLUG List Noise Levels

[Jethro Carr]

Look! Text Based!!! ;)

I'll put a note on the lug site, that text based emails are prefered,
because some people can't handle text based emails.
We should'nt ban HTML mail completly, because some webmail accounts,
really can't be changed, and this would be unfair to pople who use these


The email war has ended.... :)

On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 20:36, Andrej Ricnik wrote:
> >  But most people do use html mail, and many web mail accounts
> > force you too, and It's time to face that many emails are sent
> > in HTML. If you run a GUI, there is no real excuse not to have
> > a HTML compatible email program...
> >  (My Opinion)
> Let's see ... I have about 95 mails in my WLUG
> directory. 9 of them are HTML, 8 of these are from you.
> I have a grand total of 2798 Mails stored, 121 of which
> are HTML (I didn't bother counting the individuals :}
> but I assure you that they aren't from more than 12
> people). As far as I am concerned the number is
> not significant, and even if it were I'd still go for
> the minimal common denominator, which is ASCII.
> Your mail client can read and produce ASCII,
> mutt, pine or other console based mailers
> get tons of garbage on their screen. 
> 

--- Jethro

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