At 13:09 6/13/99 -0700, you wrote:
<snip>
>Am I totally off-base with this, or should we try harder to encourage
>people to switch to plain text?  I'd be up for having listserv and the
>gateway bounce postings in unacceptable formats if that were possible
>(though I suspect it's not practical) with a message explaining why
>the post was rejected and a pointer to information on fixing your client's
>configuration.
>
</snip>

I think people ought to be encouraged to use plain text.  Postings which
can not be read by some poeple reduces the utility of the list, and is, I
am sure, frustrating to those who can't read them.

However, I think that bouncing postings which don't use plain text is a bit
heavy-handed.  Maybe sending a warning back to the sender that the message
may be unreadable, but still posting the message, is a gentler way to do
this.  I have no clue if this can be done or not.


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