Request to mailing list get_iplayer rejected

On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 17:37 -0700, CHRIS wrote: > wanker > > -----Original Message----- > From: get_iplayer-bounces at lists.infradead.org > [mailto:get_iplayer-bounces at lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of > get_iplayer-owner at lists.infradead.org > Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 2:02 PM > To: chris-davies at shaw.ca > Subject: Request to mailing list get_iplayer rejected > > Your request to the get_iplayer mailing list > > Posting of your message titled "help" > > has been rejected by the list moderator. The moderator gave the > following reason for rejecting your request: > > "No HTML mail please. See http://david.woodhou.se/email.html" > > Any questions or comments should be directed to the list administrator > at: > > get_iplayer-owner at lists.infradead.org Thank you, Chris, for your eloquent yet succinct request that I should reconsider the decision to bar HTML posts to the mailing list. The filters which apply to this list are inherited from other lists which I run. Over the years I have found that there is a *strong* correlation between those make their posts hard to read by top-posting, quoting indiscriminately and/or sending 'prettified' HTML messages, and those whose messages aren't really worth reading anyway. I suspect both are related to a lack of attention when composing email. I've found that by asking people to pay just a little bit of attention to how their email will be received, it seems to cause a big improvement in the quality of communication. Barring HTML also catches a certain amount of spam which manages to get through the other filtering. I had wondered, as I tended to the moderation queue yesterday, whether I should relax the rules on the get_iplayer list. It is, after all, a different demographic to most of my other lists, and there have been a number of people initially attempting to post HTML who *didn't* seem to be particularly poor at communicating — and it's a fairly low-traffic list so it perhaps doesn't matter so much if messages are harder to read. Your response has helped me to decide that I won't relax the rules just yet. Thank you for the guidance. -- dwmw2