On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 17:37 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > > That is true, but HTML mail is a bandwidth waster. I routinely get > > messages with so much garbage in them that just delete them. This > is > > what this filter does, dumps HTML mail before it even gets read. We > > need to remember that the standard of this mailing list is > text/plain > > ONLY. That was set a long time ago. And remember, there are still > > folks out there paying by the byte for mail. > > And people waste more "bandwidth" than HTML email could ever dream of > by rehashing this crap every other day. The bandwidth that email > uses, HTML or not is *nothing* compared with *every other activity one > does online*. If you don't want HTML email, deal with it on your own > and leave the rest of us out of your useless crusade. Shake your fist > at the kids on the lawn all you like, just shut the hell up about it. Perhaps you'd like to propose this reasoned and conciliatory position to the list administrators and propose that the Guidelines be changed. Until then, said Guidelines say that HTML is not acceptable (note that the reasons go beyond questions of bandwidth; security is far more important). poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
