So far I received two YES votes and one NO vote.
One YES vote indicate this is already in the list charter. I include
the relevent part in this summary.
The NO vote does not make sense to me, so I include my comments after.
/* IMPORTANT: READ THIS BEFORE POSTING TO SUN-MANAGERS */
Please, no postings in HTML, rich-text-format, Microsoft Word,
Word Perfect, or any format that some people on the list would not
easily be able to read. Also, please post in English only; most
of our readers are not able to read other languages.
/* name withheld
This is my thought:
Please don't blame people who post messages on this
bulletin board. Not a single person should have the
obligation or responsibility to consider about what
YOU might use as your email front end program.
*/
My comment: First I do not think I am the only one who
can not read non-ascii format. Second of all, I think it is common
sense that you want your message to be read by as wide audience as
possible. A person who uses traditional unix mail reader should not
be left out of unix related discussions. Thirdly I do not think it
adds any benefit for the discussion to send HTML, send a simple
shell script as an attachment, etc.
/* From: foster@bial1.ucsd.edu
Note that this is already included in the list charter. Trouble is,
many people who use the list have never read the damn thing!
Dave
*/
/* From stefan@terradata.de
Michael,
this is a very good suggestion ! I use dtmail, and i can't read HTML mail
s too. So I throw them away without reading them.
*/
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