From: Jeff MacDonald <jam@zoidtechnologies.com>
Reply-To: Jeff MacDonald <jam@zoidtechnologies.com>
Organization: Zoid Technologies, LLC
To: pgsql-www@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Avoiding legal email signatures
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:28:58 -0400
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On Tuesday 12 June 2007 4:04 pm, Josh Berkus wrote:
> All,
[...snipped...]
> This is a good idea anyway.  We should have a list usage policy, and we
> should link to if from the subscribe confirmation and from the web
> subscription page.  In addition to letting people know that e-mail
> confidentiality footers will be ignored, we can tell them how the lists are
> moderated, how to unsubscribe (can't have this in enough places), not to
> use HTML mail, etc.
>

ok.. of course as an "experienced user" I agree that HTML on the mailing list 
postings should be banned. kmail has a setting for this, but I doubt that the 
common Windows Email Client does. my suggestion is to link to reasons *why* 
HTML in email is bad (and no, "because spam is sent using html" is not a good 
enough reason:)), and perhaps a link to a document that talks about how to 
turn it off with yahoo, gmail, OE, etc would help. actually.. is HTML in 
email all that bad if there is a reasonable text/plain version attached? 
granted it chews bandwidth and storage space in the archives.. so.. hmm. :)

regards,
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Jeff MacDonald, 
Zoid Technologies <http://zoidtechnologies.com/>