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