[Tutor] list mail formatting

Jamie Paul Griffin jamie at kontrol.kode5.net
Thu Dec 22 09:59:05 CET 2011


On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:51:46PM +0000, Alan Gauld wrote:
> On 21/12/11 11:49, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote:
 
> >Is there not a requirement to use plain text as with
> > most other technical mailing lists?
> 
> No, because many of the users of this list are non technical
> beginners who understand relatively little about computers.
> We  request, and advise where possible, on setting up email
> in plain text, but we do not insist since that would deter
> the very people we are trying to help.

I can understand that and it's a fair point. So, perhaps my suggestion of putting some filtering/reformatting software on the list server could help with this?

	jamie.


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