[Mailman-Developers] Interesting study -- spam on postedaddresses...

[Nigel Metheringham]

On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 13:28, Damien Morton wrote:
> > From: Dale Newfield [mailto:dale@newfield.org] 
> > It only works with graphical browsers.
> 
> This is true. We are in the 21st century now. Expecting a graphical
> client isnt such a huge leap of faith, unless we allow ourselves to be
> guided by recidivist or luddite lynx users and their ilk.

You haven't been following this, have you...

Chuq Vos Rospach wrote yesterday in response to Dale's point:-
> This is a very good point. I mentioned ADA compliance yesterday.
> To be ADA compliant, if you rendered the e-mail address as a graphic,
> you'd also have to put the text into the ALT tag. Which would enable
> it for lynx and sight-limited solutions -- and make putting into a
> graphic kinda meaningless. So you can't use this approach unless you
> want to ignore the ADA and lock out your blind users from those
> functions.

> I'm not willing to make that tradeoff. While I'm not going to live or
> die on the ADA compliance issue, I think it's important to keep it in
> mind because it forces us to focus on more than the "easy" case or the
> "geek" case and worry about solutions that work across the spectrum of
> users, from the AOL newbie to Jay. We can't solve problems just for
> Jay, or just for Newbies, we have to find a solution that works as
> well as possible for as many of those groups as possible. ADA
> compliance is a useful strawman that keeps us focussed away from
> "I want it this way, so that's the right way".

plus enforcing a minimum browser standard (other than minimal text/html)
is going to hit deep water with the various PDAs, phones, WAP and other
stuff that almost has real browsers on.

And insulting lynx users isn't a way to increase your expected life
span.  Go do something less controversial like arguing the advantages of
vi in the emacs news groups. 

	Nigel.
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