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Re: Debian Development



On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 09:55:45AM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Please don't send HTML to mailing lists in the future. Some people do not
> have HTML-capable mail readers, and others have spam filters that are
> quite likely to kill all HTML mail. It's much better to post whatever you
> HTML you have on a webpage, and send a URL to the list instead.
> 
> Messages sent to the Debian mailing lists (esp. the development lists)
> should be in plaintext.

Well.  Don't send HTML messages, no.  But he didn't.  He sent a
properly structured MIME message with a plain text body and an HTML
attachment.  Since it wasn't particularly large, it seems to me it was
a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

Jules



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