El 02/09/2025 a las 17:14, Arnaud Becheler via Boost escribió:
Online communication e.g. on a mailing list is not documentation or a website. ML is also not a social network or a chat. I'm sure you understand
I think Vinnie has a point though. Formatting (or the lack of) can serve or deserve communication.
For quick emails and short replies, the balance usually favors minimal formatting—plain text, short sentences, and clear calls to action. It’s clean, portable, and fast to write and read.
But as a technical note grows in length or complexity, its structure has to carry more meaning. At that point, formatting stops being cosmetic and becomes part of the content: it conveys hierarchy, relationships, and emphasis. You can do this in pure plain text, but it raises friction, hurts scanability, discourages participation, and doesn’t scale for detailed or nested material. The lack of properly formatted code blocks is IMO a killer on such ML :)
I'm with you and Claudio on the convenience of properly supporting rich-text posts (probably via HTML). I understand the problems but I think these are outweighed by the new possibilities in terms of producing informative/readable stuff (basic formatting, codeblocks, tables, images). And it's not like people _don't_ post tables and codeblocks on the ML --they just do it in a very lame way, since the beginning of time. Joaquín M López Muñoz