[HLUG] HTML-only eMail & 'Top-posting'

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

Quoting Christopher Evans <reactiv8 at hotmail.co.uk>:
Christopher,

> I apologise if I have erred replying to other posts, however I would  
>  like to make a few points 'in my defence':~

Fair enough! :oP

> I noticed some time ago that Hotmail repeatedly asks me to 'update'   
> my version of Fire Fox although I am already using Fire Fox3 (in   
> Mint Elyssa). I did not deliberately send HTML-only eMail - Either   
> this is Hotmail or mailman 'morphing' my eMails, which have never   
> before caused any problem or 'offence' ... I had noticed earlier   
> that my post about meeting venues had been strangely 'compressed'   
> making it much harder to read ...

I'm not blaming you, as soon as I saw that you were using Hotmail I  
realised where the issue lay(!) - I just thought I'd try and point it  
out.  You're not the only one on the list who sends email that gets  
mangled from time to time.

> I was not aware that some of our members read our forum 'on the   
> move'. In future, I will edit my replies by removing all the   
> 'extraneous' information and previous posts presumably generated by   
> mailman? It would also be 'reasonable' if others did so to ...

Thank you.

> As for 'Top Posting', I went to some lengths to avoid my other   
> thread being confused with the one about meeting venues, so if   
> mailman has mixed these up that is not my fault. It was intended to   
> be mildly humorous, but it seems I got that wrong too - :lol: Why   
> can't we have a proper forum as so many others do, with multiple   
> threads arranged by a mutually agreed and understood taxonomy? In   
> future I must remember: One thread at a time, and no humour ...

Humour is definitely a requirement of and Mailing list - I just  
couldn't read the email, so I probably missed it!  As for why we  
shouldn't have a forum, that's like asking why you should use Exim  
instead of Sendmail, KDE instead of Gnome or Vi instead of Emacs -  
it's guaranteed to start a fight - personally, I prefer mailing lists  
as I don't have time to scan through a forum site looking for new  
posts or replies to threads that I'm interested in, my mail-clients  
sort things by thread for me so I just need to scan down the list of  
new emails and read that thread.

> Anyway, I frequently have to take 'flak' from various sources and   
> fortunately I have a pretty 'thick skin', so I can 'take it', but on  
>  this occasion I think I am innocent.

As I said, the attack wasn't meant to be against you personally (more  
against Hotmail than anything else!) and moving to GoogleMail will  
make matters of formatting/replying/threading much easier.

Hope I've cleared up a few things, if not, let me know and I'll try to  
help where I can.

Kind regards,

Matt.
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Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk
http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/