<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Robin Gilks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:g8ecj@gilks.org">g8ecj@gilks.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Nick Rout <<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Tortise <<a href="mailto:tortise@paradise.net.nz">tortise@paradise.net.nz</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > Can someone enlighten me how one sensibly and easily bottom posts in<br>
>> reply to HTML posts which do not use the "<" conventions?<br>
>> > (e.g. Steves last post.) Is there a trick, or does one edit edit...?<br>
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>> If everyone posted plain text the problem would disappear.<br>
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> If eveyone used a modern mail client the problem would disappear as well<br>
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</div></div>Email was and is designed for plain text - mailing lists were and are<br>
designed for plain text. The fact that an attachment can be made to an<br>
email that duplicates the information (but bloated) doesn't mean the<br>
facility should be used.<br></blockquote><div><br>The fact the email was designed before HTML caught on isn't really that relevant IMHO. Lots of standards get upgraded. MIME has been around for something like 15 years - might be time to get on board!<br>
<br>HTML encoded email supports the character sets necessary to properly use both our official written languages - a public mailing list run in this country really should accept it for that reason alone. HTML email also handles quoting better. It doesn't result in misquoted text like this:<br>
>> > Can someone enlighten me how one sensibly and easily bottom posts in<br>
>> reply to HTML posts which do not use the "<" conventions?<br><br>Btw, multipart/alternative and multipart/mixed are not the same thing - the HTML is not an attachment. And the only reason email is still bloated with plain text versions is to support luddites who stubbornly refuse to upgrade ;-)<br>
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Stripping out the garbage for archiving is also a real pain - one of the<br>
reasons mailman can be so fragile these days.<br></blockquote><div><br> If you can't gracefully handle HTML email in 2010 the problem is yours. It's not hard to handle.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Why anyone would want to put any fancy formatting into an email that<br>
requires html beats me. Its like top posting - its just wrong!</blockquote><div><br>Top/bottom posting is a different sort of issue entirely. It's about writing for maximum ease of understanding, just like all other grammer and punctuation rules and conventions.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br></div></div>