[Nottingham] Maillist notes

[Michael Simms]

Actually the more I think about it...

Trimming messages...
OK, sounds fine, in the days of 300 baud modems. Today, your emails that 
are trimmed to, well lets say this one were I to trim off the crud, it 
would save 1056 bytes, which on the slowest modern internet connection 
is about 0.004 seconds of downloading. As opposed to the 20 seconds it 
would take me to trim. Not very efficient. And if you are top-posting, 
as I obviously advocate, it is completely unnecessary too, as you wont 
see the excess.

For the text-only posting...
Now, I for one always post text, simply because I prefer it. And I find 
fluffy pink HTML emails with flower logos quite cloying. But again, it 
is part of the mail standard and most email readers will parse the text 
alternative portion that most mail composers create automatically.

As such, if the mailing list server is screwing up headers and 
mimetypes, you cant just say 'well just use a subset of the email system 
because our system can handle that' - cos that just smells of a broken 
mailing list system. Surely that should be fixed. Ir should we all go 
back to older technology every time there is a bug in new* technology.
Afterall if a mail server forgot to parse emails and add a > infront of 
the word From in each email at the start of a line, that would have the 
same effect as bad headers, would it then be the right answer to stop 
using the word From in emails?

Michael Simms, CEO - Tux Games LTD
http://www.tuxgames.com

* 10+ year old

On 06/03/2010 04:02 PM, Martin wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Some of the mail is going through the maillist with corrupted mail
> headers or duplicate MIME headers...
>
> If possible, please mail "text only" to the maillist rather than html
> pages as attachments.
>
>
> Also, please trim quotes when replying to posts and post your text
> underneath (bottom post).
>
> My view is that top posting is fine for buisnesses that wish to have an
> audit trail to cover their...
>
>
> Anyone using the mail digests? Are they coming through ok?
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>
>
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> A: Top-posting.
> Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet and in e-mail?
>
> - Newsnet post
>
>
> A:  The most annoying thing on usenet.
> Q:  What's top-posting?
>
> - Newsnet post
>
>
> Are you confident that you appear to be professional in your
> electronic communication? Consider this:
>      A: No
>      Q: Can I top post?
>
> - Newsnet post
>
>
> The One exception, perhaps?
>
> ... Except that is if you're in business and keep an exponentially
> increasing "Cover My Arse" audit trail of all previous emails in each
> subsequent email...
>
> - Martin L, NLUG post
>
>
>