[lbo-talk] plain text please

[Fernando Cassia]

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 09:48, Mike Ballard <swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Fellow LOBsters,
>
> I'm just not able to read many, many posts here anymore because of the incessant '?' which appear at the oddest places in sentences.  Could I prevail on you all to make sure that you are sending your messages to this list in plain text?
>
> Carry on,
> Mike B)

Goodwill alone wont work. If you want all mail to be plaintext, the
list admin needs to set the list server to reject html mail.

I switch between html and plain ascii on my GMail account several
times per day -because some stuff needs to be with formatting- (I use
the web -AJAX- interface, btw), and sometimes forget to switch it back
to plaintext.

When I used Mozilla SeaMonkey, it was all easier, because it allowed
you to specify which lists (or addresses) to send mail as text-only
and which ones to send as html.

But hey, we are on the Cloud now. So the user has fewer and fewer
control about his software, its all decided by the know-it-all experts
in the Google ivory tower.

FC
-- 
"Si, yo creo en los objetos. Inclusive más que en los seres humanos.
Creo que son más fieles ¿no?. Porque, claro, los seres humanos pueden
traicionarte, pero los objetos no, a los objetos
los traicionamos nosotros."
                                     -Manuel Mujica Laines