[Mailman-Users] Re: Handling HTML format messages

[Chuq Von Rospach]

On Wednesday, August 21, 2002, at 04:45  PM, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:

>
>     Kind request: Sending e-mail to the list is more than enough.  No 
> need to
> copy it to other people's e-mail addresses.  That just creates 
> duplicate
> e-mails.

(here we go again...)

Some of us prefer getting those duplicates. I filter list mail out of 
the way until I have time to read it. So if I'm in a discussion with 
someone, I want both copies, so I can continue the discussion without 
delays.

Trying to tell everyone else to do things a certain way is the wrong 
way to do this. If you want things a certain way, teach your client to 
give it to you that way. Don't try to make everyone remember who's 
preferences are what. You're in control of your machine, not theirs. 
(as I like to say, "I prefer all my email in HTML format, 18 point 
type, the font colored red. Please make sure you don't forget that, 
okay? it's important to me").

you're telling them to not do something prevents them from doing what 
*I* want done. Who wins here?

answer: fix your system to throw out duplicates, and don't try to make 
other people comform to your idea of "right".

chuq

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