Re: [ILUG-BOM] [Vote] blocking non-text messages

hii, I continue to voice my support for html mails . Since the argument started , seems like the purpose of the vote has been corrupted . the original debate I believe was on if to ban html mails completely or not .and if html is allowed that doesn't mean that everyone has to write henceforth in html only , users can write in plain text and whenever needed html/pdf etc can be posted by users with discretion . After all a forum like this relies heavily on the manners of the its users . Allowing html doesn't mean you are inviting all sort of junk into this forum , junk can be, if required , posted in text form too . Every newbie on this forum and every other person who is into marketing like me , I am sure must have supported html mails. this argument finds a friend in the dos/windows which the better fight ?? when I started using computers , dos was around , and I loved the o/s . I really did, more so because I had near mastery over the software , then came in windows and it changed the way the world of common users (not geeks) looked at computers , many people cursed windows so much for the extra space it takes ( similar to argument put here by some one about extra space that html mails take ) and its crashes . Though dos was great since it hardly crashed and hard so little requirements but a life without windows cannot be imagined ,I know this is a Linux forum but I am still a newbie with Linux so bear the dos/windows example . Similarly , all text mail supporters ask this question to yourself?? . was Linux good enough even without the G.U.I . I am sure you will say yes it was , you could do it all without the G.U.I. But Linux can't make it to the mainstream of common users without G.U.I. again not swaying too much for the original argument , open up GROUP , be open to new things , never resist change , new technologies come with their own set of problems , but then we work our way around it and that's how technology moves ahead.Don't create barriers for new technology , Break the barriers let html in and if users don't use them responsibly , warn them once twice and if found incorrigible ban them . let both text and html co- exist !! what say guys ??? Time to wind up the mail and also this argument i believe Thanks Nikhil Bhaskaran .