Re: GAS-L: tests download patience,

[Harmon Seaver <hseaver@cybershamanix.com>]

Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> 
> ..accepted.  Now, does the dead horse I flog, still breathe?
> As in, how do we want the message and quote style here?
> 
> ..and, do we flog each gas list member to do this right, or
> do we flog the gas list admin to set up our list server to
> massage all messages for us, the way we the gas listers want them?
> (This may be of interest to the other Crest lists too?)
> 

    I'm not 100% sure, but am pretty doubtful that the list software can
do anything about the quoting problem, that's something each member
needs to do, and I'm not sure why they don't, since hitting the "quote"
button when you're answering mail is certainly the easiest way to
include the previous comments.
    One thing that the list can do that would help a tremendous amount
is block html posts -- that would cut bandwidth considerably, stop email
html-based viruses, and also give a uniform basis for the messages.
   That is, if they are all just pure text, they'll format pretty much
the same. I know that outlook does something with html posts that make
it very difficult for other mail readers to break in to make comments so
that it shows up properly, usually when you do a "quote" on someone's
outlook html post, when you add your two cents, it ends up looking like
the first person said everything.
   So anyway, that's the first step -- block html posts. Personally I
think it's very annoying to get html email with GIANT type faces, or
teeny-tiny ones and/or weird colors, and I can well imagine how
frustrating it must be for someone on a slow modem to wait minutes for a
post to download, only to find it's someone saying very little, but
doing it with html. Not to mention the fact that if you're trying to
read email from a shell account with elm or pine or mutt, it just looks
like garbage. 


-- 
Harmon Seaver
CyberShamanix
http://www.cybershamanix.com

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