Re: Using Thunderbird to reply to a mailing list Was Re: Quoting Style

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

I need to apologise to the list.  I was trying to alter my usual method of 
replying to the list to one that still worked properly, I thought.  Clearly 
it didn't and I have broken the thread.  So I shall resend the original of 
this by my usual method.

:-((
Lisi

 On Friday 16 August 2013 17:29:58 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Friday 16 August 2013 17:10:33 David Guntner wrote:
> > Regardless of those preferences, on a mailing list where you don't know
> > what mail program someone reading is going to be using, it's always a
> > bad idea to use HTML in posting a message.  Sure, at this point the
> > majority of mail readers can render HTML.  But ALL mail readers (even
> > the ones that understand HTML) can render plain text.  Not to mention
> > the size increase of messages written using HTML, but that's another
> > subject....
> >
> > I hope this (rather lengthy reply, sorry about that :-) ) gives you a
> > bit better insight into the matter. :-)
>
> Having missed Ethan's OP, you have missed the main point of peoples'
> complaints.  Ethan is refusing advice on how to set Thunderbird to reply,
> and is doing a most peculiar and unintelligible method of his own, which
> also breaks threading.
>
> As a Thunderbird user, could you possibly try telling Ethan again how he
> needs to set Thunderbird to produce comprehensible replies.  His persistent
> use of his own peculiar method must be turning off more people that just
> me.  I didn't even read his last, most complicated one.
>
> I agree with your comment about changing subjects.  I have changed this to
> increase the liklihood that, if you reply to my email, Ethan will see and
> read it.
>
> Thanks,
> Lisi