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[OM] HTML in postings, and other Digest gripes...

Subject: [OM] HTML in postings, and other Digest gripes...
From: "Donald MacDonald" <Donald.MacDonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:12:30 -0000
HTML is a bit annoying in the Digest, principally because it takes up a lot
of room and we have to scroll through it; the most annoying posts are those
which arrive in plain text, with the whole thing repeated in HTML
immediately after.

However, this is as nothing to the posts which insist on including the
entire text of the message they are replying to. In some cases, these
messages include the entire thread from A to Z. If they also are posted in
HTML, they can constitute the entire Digest (this has happened).

If software exists to strip out HTML, then let's go for it. I don't want
anyone excluded from the list.

But I find the unsnipped quoting to be the worst thing, and it is entirely
in the hands of the members. Snip it!

Donald.

Donald Neil MacDonald BA DipLIS
www.bigmac1st.freeserve.co.uk


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