Re: amber-developers: restricting amber email to text-only?

From: Thomas Steinbrecher <steinbrt.scripps.edu>
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 13:10:34 -0700 (PDT)

Hi everyone,

my vote would also be to get rid of html, it doesnt help with
anything and true amber users should get used to doing everything in
ASCII anyway ;-)

Regards,

Thomas

Dr. Thomas Steinbrecher
The Scripps Research Institute
10550 N. Torrey Pines Rd.
San Diego CA 92037, USA

On Fri, 2 May 2008, Carlos Simmerling wrote:

> I can't remember the last time that html helped in
> one of the emails. sometimes attachments are useful,
> so we probably should not block those.
>
> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 3:38 PM, David A. Case <case.scripps.edu> wrote:
>> Ross Walker wrote:
>>
>>
>> > The best solution in the end though would be to stop accepting html email
>> > on the amber list. This would make things so much nicer but will obviously
>> > generate a lot of initial complaints from "inexperienced" users.
>>
>> What do people think about this idea? Many mailing lists do automatically
>> reject mail with html extensions. I've tried to be as "friendly" as possible
>> for amber.scripps.edu, but there is some price.
>>
>> So, I'm looking for advice or discussion: what do you think about the pros and
>> cons of forcing posts to be text only?
>>
>> ...thanks...dave
>>
>>
>
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