On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 20:26 +0530, Arun Khan wrote:
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 7:58 PM, James Hatridge <James.Hatridge@gmx.de> wrote:
So far you're the only one to give a real answer to this, thanks for that. Do you know if kmail has this option? I've not been able to find it. But this still bring us back to the first question. Why does this list not keep up with the times.
Please read the responses on this issue. The mailing list programs are not behind times. Text only mode is the setting. This is true for *all* FOSS technical mailing lists that I am a member (openSUSE, CentOS, Debian, bridge-utils, linux-kvm, openwrt, zeroshell, voyage linux ......)
It has nothing to do with cheaper storage and/or faster bandwidth.
It does, that's the excuse we used to give 15 plus years ago, it just stuck around, times change, hell, it was only late 2000's that I stopped using pine for all mail/usenet :)
Whereas, HTML formatted messages are the norm in Web forums and you will hardly see any pure text based discussions and that is OK for Web forum as you view them in your web browser.
Ten years ago, when almost no one had anything faster than 56k then it was understandable. But now even someone one out in the middle of no where Germany has at least DSL 2000 so this rule is silly. I'm on over 60 lists and am the owner of 4. This is the only list I have this problem with.
Not true Please see above.
Actually he is kinda right, just because the few lists you suggest don't use it, thousands more do use it. If the list used a list manager from this century, it can be configured to convert HTML into TEXT avoiding pissing off users all the time. Noel (Who for nearly two decades was anal about html posters - but know even I accept it is a reality and don't care - unless you send to our helpdesk/abusedesk blah blah then we enforce text)