no HTML list mails - no top-posting - stripped quotation *please*

[Paul Howarth]

HaJo Schatz wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 16:29 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> 
>>I kindly beg all mail sending list subscribers to follow our list
>>guidelines:
>>
>>- please do not send HTML formatted mails to the list, just plain text
>>
>>- please place the new text below the quoted part of previous mail text
>>_and_ reasonable strip down the part you quote
> 
> 
> Especially with the amount of traffic this list receives lately, I for
> one simply ignore HTML-formatted mails by now (too lazy to zoom in and
> out all the time). Same if the context of a mail is so messed up that I
> twist my brain trying to decypher it.
> 
> I believe that if only a few competent people on this list do the same,
> the amount of such "wrong" postings would be significantly reduced in no
> time...

I won't respond to postings by people who, having been asked not to post 
in HTML, persist in doing so, but I'm more forgiving of newbies.

Paul.