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

Next LUG meet: 11 Oct 2003 around 4 pm - VJTI Mech Dept ------------------------------------------------------- On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 06:03:21AM +0530, Devdas Bhagat wrote: Why text mail? Because every email client knows how to handle it. PERIOD. Why deny html mail? It is *expensive*, and those clients that dont support HTML by default mail are prohibited from reading our mails seamlessly. Since we should go for a standard encoding so that all clients support it is a good policy to say we accept posts only in PLAIN TEXT. Since the next acceptable standard encoding is HTML, we accept it a few number of times by sending a warning, and then block them if the user doesnt care for the community. It is a good practice to encode in text. If one wants to be more *expressive* using plain text use again the most commonly used methods of being expressive, eg. LOUD, <warning> warn </warning>. Again by using plain text encoding. Nagarjuna