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Re: [Asrg] Introduction and another idea

2003-06-20 08:42:33
At 08:55 AM 6/20/2003 -0600, Vernon Schryver wrote:

> From: Benjamin Geer <ben(_at_)socialtools(_dot_)net>

> > If HTML formating is so valuable, valued and nearly universal used,
> > why haven't we seen much of it in this mailing list?
>
> Because in technical circles (and some academic ones), HTML email is
> prohibited by cultural tradition -- the same tradition that says quoting in
> replies should be done in the style I'm using here.

That implies that HTML should be less common here, but not as absent
as it has been.  We've had contributions from people who don't seem well
versed on such conventions, including top-posting and full-quoting.

I got messages from the list that were picked up by SpamAssasin partly because they were HTML based, particularly some messages from Bob Wyman.



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