[Python-Dev] regarding HTML mail

[Jesse Noller]

I'd like to discuss top-posting. 


On Monday, March 19, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

> On Mar 19, 2012, at 05:25 PM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> 
> > apology: I searched for a few minutes and could not find a code of
> > conduct regarding HTML mail.
> 
> 
> 
> I'm not sure it's written down anywhere, but in general we strongly discourage
> HTML email for the lists @python.org (http://python.org)
> 
> > Can we have some guideline to allow only plain text emails, so as to
> > avoid cases like
> > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/docs/2012-March/007999.html, where
> > you are forced to scroll horizontally in order to read the text.
> 
> 
> 
> docs is a different mailing list than python-dev, but still neither list is
> doing any content filtering. We could always enable that if we wanted to get
> strict about it.
> 
> In this case, this isn't html email, it's likely this bug:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/558294
> 
> Cheers,
> -Barry
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