[mythtv-users] Meta: PLEASE trim posts !

[Scott Alfter]

Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 02:50:37PM -0700, Scott Alfter wrote:
>> While it doesn't address the wasted bandwidth incurred by the schmucks sending 
>> HTML mail (to say nothing about the additional wastage caused by top-posting), 
>> at least Thunderbird has a menu option to view everything as plain-text:
>>
>> View -> Message Body As -> Plain Text
> 
> For those who didn't realize that was a bad idea, and now want to go
> back to participating in the wonderful 7-bit ASCII world of RFC-2822
> email, let me point you to 
> 
> 		http://expita.com/nomime.html
> 
> which will be happy to explain to you how to turn off outgoing HTML on
> your email, so you will piss off fewer people on mailing lists and
> contribute less to the flood of bytes.

Um...I don't know if that was aimed at me specifically or at the list in 
general, but my outbound mail is already set to plain-text and has been that 
way pretty much forever.  While that link provides plenty of good reasons why 
HTML mail is evil and tips on disabling it, I suspect the people who'd most 
need to read it would be the same ones who have trouble finding the Any key.

I suppose it comes down to how active you want to be in getting people to do 
the Right Thing.  Sometimes, it's just easier to work around other people's 
brokenness.  Other people top-posting presents enough windmills for me to tilt 
at, and that only trips in when I reply to them. :-)

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