Re: [boost] Please let's avoid sending mails containing HTML parts

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-01 10:59:00

on Sat Mar 22 2008, Jens Seidel <jensseidel-AT-users.sf.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I noticed that Boost's mailing list rules don't forbid sending useless HTML
> attachments which is not a good idea for discussion lists. Please let's
> extent
> http://www.boost.org/more/discussion_policy.htm
> to avoid this.
>
> Advantages:
>  * Smaller messages
>  * Faster opening (difference between text and HTML parts can be
>    factor 10 and more!)
>  * More consistent display formatting (no differences between
>    text and HTML can occur without HTML)
>  * There is absolutely no need to send HTML stuff. If one really depends
>    on pictures or similar stuff the person should use normal attachments
>    or even better upload the data to a remote site
>
> Omitting HTML parts is just a common rule for many lists, strange that Boost
> didn't enforce it yet.

Long ago we decided to discourage it, but not to simply ban it, because
*sometimes*, in rare instances, HTML provides the extra expressiveness
needed to get a point across.  It hasn't been a huge problem, AFAIK.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
http://boost-consulting.com