From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] Re: [WSFA] Re: Give Me That Old Time Technology!
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:37:27 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

"Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu> wrote:
> Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Good lord what happened there?  Sorry!

> Well yes, that was interesting!

Again I ask that everyone turn off MIME and HTML.  HTML messages will
be blocked.  MIME messages will not be blocked, but may look bizarre,
with lots of equal signs, hexadecimal codes, and mangled margins.

I suggest that they be turned off not just for this list but for
everyone (except by prior arrangement, in the unlikely case you can
find someone who *prefers* messages in such formats).

If your mailer doesn't allow you easily turn off these features, in
fact if it doesn't *warn* you whenever they *haven't* been turned off,
I strongly suggest you get a better mailer.

Also, it's seldom necessary to quote *all* of a message you're
replying to, especially if it quotes all of yet another message.  The
purpose of quoting is to establish context.  Quoting *everything* is
like soaking a textbook in highlighter ink.

And I really have to wonder what someone was thinking -- or should
I say what they were smoking -- when they quote off-topic gibberish
and ads automatically added by Yahoo! on the other list.  Unless the
intention was to comment on them or call attention to them, which it
doesn't seem to be.