[Gllug] Problems reading Rev Rumble's posts

[Jon Masters]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, David Damerell wrote:

> >It's always good to talk to people who live in the real world :)
> 
> No doubt this is bluster to conceal the fact that you actually fall
> into one of these three categories - at a guess, "abusing employer's
> facilities". Don't do that. Access to mailing lists is not some kind of
> fundamental human right - pay for net access of your own, or go away.

A little harsh there. Although I agree many companies would not be happy
with it one should not assume they do not allow reading Linux mail lists.
For example many people work long hours and have informal arrangements to
use some of the time for personal development or whatever term is used.

> This was followed by 29 lines of excreable HTML. You're making my
> point for me; if we made it impossible for people using braindead mail
> clients to read the list, we'd be better off.

I agree and disagree. In a perfect world this would be great.
Meanwhile in the real world I suggest we try a little tollerance in the
interest of furthering communication - e.g. unfortunately some people I
know devel Linux products at work but are still forced to use Exchange.

> [In particular - while I realise our list admin will exercise his fiat
> to ignore random suggestions from the gallery - I would favour
> discarding any message to the list containing HTML.]

That might generally help to reduce spam and provide an improved
experience to many of us however it will severely hamper a newcomer who
uses Microsoft Outlook with default settings and wishes to ask a question.
They might see us as zealoty bigots and never post to the list again.

Jon.


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