[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk-Users List Etiquette

[Rich Adamson]

Isn't it odd as hell the same people that complain about html are also
some of the same people that use "special" mail readers to emulate news
readers? Both seem to want to influence the 8,000 list members their
tools are the only one's in existence and we better all format our
list postings to make their tool happy. NOT!

Guess my 1996 reader must be a little odd; it handles top & bottom postings
along with html without complaining a bit.

> Steven Critchfield [critch at basesys.com] wrote:
> > You forgot to add in how awful it is when people  post using HTML and
> > then override font sizes or assume blue is an appropriate font color for
> > their message. 
> > 
> > While I know some people don't like it when I turn my attention to them,
> > if it takes me even one more button press to be able to read your mail,
> > it isn't likely to be interesting to me to even bother helping you with
> > your problem. 
> > 
> > Since the majority of unix users understand how each of us tweak our
> > environment to be the most productive for us, we don't like it when you
> > take liberties with our settings.
> > 
> He also forgot to mention how awful it is when people lazily top-post
> instead of taking the time to format their followups correctly.
> This is especially true when trying to follow a thread found in the
> archives.
> 
> I fully agree with your anti-HTML comments, by the way.