[OSM-talk-be] mailing list good practice (user's and software's)

[Glenn Plas]

On 2013-09-17 01:02, André Pirard wrote:
> On 2013-09-16 11:52, Glenn Plas wrote :
>> If you want to be serious about this then a new topic should be 
>> initiated by sending a new mail instead of a reply with a new 
>> subject.  Every decent mailclient out there -usually- does not use 
>> the subject to 'thread' mails. instead it uses certain fields in the 
>> mail headers.  I noticed that mail-man (the mailing list handler of 
>> THIS list) does not seem to add those headers (in fact, they seem to 
>> be removed from outgoing mails, I cannot find those fields like below).
> You're right, my main gripe is against the mailing list software 
> mailman itself because it does not allow HTML. It does archive a HTML 
> version of the archive but when you look at it on the server you see 
> HTML code.
> By "allow HTML", I mean "simple HTML": text style, lists, tables etc, 
> not eccentric showy stuff.
> I've sent an e-mail to mailman about this and they replied
>
>   * that we, technical people, do not need HTML because we don't use
>     it much.
>

I think you misunderstood my mail.  At the very bottom of that partly 
quoted mail I stated : Never use HTML mail.  I am very much against 
using html in mails.  I believe HTML belongs on a website, not a mail.  
I prefer plain-text..  Sorry :)

Glenn