Sometime Today, Nikhil Joshi assembled some asciibets to say:
Don't post to newsgroups/maillists in HTML,
ain't HTML supposed to be cool and convenient ? I mean with HTML
No. Text is universal. That's what makes something cool and convenient.
I can easily send links and the formatting is also great . Most mail
You can do that with text too. http://www.ilug-bom.org.in/ is a link, and I did it with plain text.
clients are supposed to support HTML right?
Most yes. All no. It's okay when you are sending personal mails to your friends who you know have a client that supports html. It's not when you mail a newsgroup or mailing list where there are hundreds of people. If even one of them cannot read html mail (as was the case with me a few months ago), then it defeats the purpose of sending the mail.
Text can be read by everyone, even those who do not use a mail client. I do this all the time.
Your ISP should have mentioned this to you when they gave you an Internet account. If
they
didn't, then shame on them.
with the quality of support given by most isp's we really can't expect this :) can we?
I know. Ironically though, the newsgroups FAQ used to be on VSNL's site (their very first site). And it was mentioned in there (including the shame on them part). VSNL has never educated their users to netiquette. They don't even do anything to prevent spamming.
Philip