[BangPypers] Mailing list etiquette

[Anand Chitipothu]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Noufal Ibrahim KV <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>
wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 04 2014, Jeffrey Jose wrote:
>
> > I agree with almost all of it, except for these 2.
> >
> > 1. No HTML emails
>
> I don't like HTML emails because usual textual matter doesn't need
> it. It simply bloats things and if the renderer your client is using
> doesn't have some feature that the sender uses, it'll appear broken.
>

I agree. We don't need HTML emails.

> 2. No attachments.
>
> This makes sense for a list because, as I understand it, the list server
> has to send a copy of the attachment to everyone on the list. It's an
> avoidable expense. A lot simpler to send a link to something on dropbox
> or somewhere.
>

Not only that, it is a pain to download something and open it in some
application just to know what is inside. It is a lot better to send a link
instead of sending attachments.

Anand