text vs html posts on this list...

[Charles Swarts]

On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 12:23:06 -0700, Mike Noble <mgnoble at cox.net> wrote:

> > If you look at the monthly mailing list stats (posted not too long
> > ago), you'll notice quite a few people still use text mode mail
> > readers. I think mutt is in the top 4. Personally I think it makes my
> > life easier to just deal with text. I don't care about fonts or
> > background colors or smileys or graphics. Just give me the facts.
> >


The bottom line is that the culture here prefers plain text.  If you
are here asking for help, then you need to do every thing you can to
fit in and make it more desirable to answer your question.  If it
causes people extra work, then they will skip it and move onto the
next post in this high volume list.