How about not using flowing text but rather limit line lengths? Even most GUI MUAs I know are able to do so when configured appropriately. * Linda Walsh (suse@tlinx.org) [20090926 03:55]:
If you limit the list to bottoms, then you get a certain type of mentality that will go into creating Suse -- which is no longer 'Open'.
That's spreading plain FUD! And by limiting the list to bottoms you simply try to get people to abide by rules that have been set up and that most people abide to. You won't go and demand that books are printed bottom up, do you?
Users WON'T read through alot of text to get to what they need to do --
It's simply a matter of people trimming their quotes to the necessary parts. If that would be done, there wouldn't be much scrolling.
nor will they have the patience to pour through lots of tedious configurations or options just to try something.
Would just be an argument for delivering MUAs with different default settings :)
That can easily be tied to an artistic sense of what looks right vs. a 'logical order' mentality.
No, it's a commonly agreed way of doing things. If you create a new community you're free to agree on different rules. But this isn't the place where you can simply ignore all rules. For instance most western languages write their lines left to right not top to bottom. For us western folks, Hebrew and arabian books are printed back to front. No it can't. You write lines from left to right not from top to bottom
There needs to be a balance and both views need representation, or OpenSuSE won't be the best product it can be...it will steer toward 'techies',
You mix communication style with technical knowhow. That's like stating that artistic abilities are directly linked to the language you speak which of cause would be nonsense.
*only*...to be the best there is, you need good support for both types of users.
Yes, choose a different media to communicate, be that another mailing list or web fora.
One SHOULD not negate the other -- but both sides are needed.
Yes, but not necessarily in the same medium. If top posting and neglect of editing replies get too much I'll just unsubscribe from this list and I guess I wouldn't be alone.
Same goes for HTML -- if they take the time to write something in HTML -- and it looks nice -- maybe you should listen to them for aesthetic ideas...
NO! HTML adds *nothing* to a discussion other then bloat. Messages are defined by content, not style. Even the best of styles won't help if the content is nonsense. Most people don't choose html because it's their conscious choice but because their MUA uses it by default.
For those posting in HTML, they should be encouraged, privately, to also supply/send the message in plain-text as well as HTML.
Which doubles the needed storage for no benefit what-so-ever.
You go onto microsoft lists, and probably apple lists -- and HTML is far more common.
That's because MS choose to deliver their poor excuse of an MUA configured in a total ignorance of common style and others followed. Outlook can't even be configured to completely comply to that style, leave alone supporting existing RFCs for e-mail.
It's only in the 'ugly duckling' linux, the lists are generally pushed as text-only, and even down to a 'one-format-fits all' approach. A decided difference, wouldn't you say?
I can show you some windows centric mailing lists where a IMO sane style is used. Like I said, if you want a different style of communication, create a different way of communicating like choosing web fora or a different mailing list. Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org