Re: [Puppet Users] Mailing list etiquette

Trevor Vaughan
2012-05-16T16:56:50Z

I''ll agree with R.I. here that HTML e-mail should be forbidden from
the web where possible.

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:48 AM, R.I.Pienaar <rip@devco.net>
wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Trevor Vaughan" <tvaughan@onyxpoint.com>
>> To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 2:42:49 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] Mailing list etiquette
>>
>> I''m going to have to push back a bit at the no top posting
with the
>> same reasoning as described here:
>>
https://lopsa.org/content/top-posting-vs-bottom-posting-stop-tilting-windmills.
>>
>> Especially since most mobile mail clients top-post, it''s going
to be
>> difficult to get this one to stick.
>>
>> I personally prefer it so that I don''t have to scroll past
hundreds
>> of lines of:
>>
>> "You received this message because you are subscribed to the
Google
>> Groups "Puppet Users" group.
>> To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com.
>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
>> puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
>> For more options, visit this group at
>> http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en."
>>
>> If you''re directly responding to something non-obvious, I do
think
>> that copying the relevant material up is nice but that you
shouldn''t
>> lose the rest of the conversation for those poor folks who may be
>> using Mutt as their primary mail reader (or some other non-threading
>> reader).
>
> I tend to agree top posting does sometimes make sense, my main pain point
is
> HTML mail which makes it hard to reply sanely for users who choose not to
use
> HTML mail clients or who choose to disable that feature.
>
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