[Kde-pim] Fwd: Re: For review.

Scarlett Clark scarlett at scarlettgatelyclark.com
Sat Jun 15 14:01:51 BST 2013


On Saturday, June 15, 2013 09:32:24 AM O. Sinclair wrote:
> On Saturday 15 June 2013 1:07 AM Scarlett Clark wrote:
> > Hi everyone. "O. Sinclair" <sinclair at orionweb.info> Both believe that this
> > should be updated to relet current standards. Advice?
> > Scarlett
> 
> What I suggested after "proofreading" is that the wording
> "Note that HTML messages are often regarded as an annoyance; therefore, you
> should avoid sending HTML messages if possible"
> is outdated. In the year 2013 HTML mail is nothing but an accepted standard
> and most "average" users have no idea what you are talking about.
> 
> My suggestion is to simply delete that sentence and shorten the next:
> "You should never send HTML messages to a mailing list unless HTML messages
> are explicitly allowed."
> 
> Even that might be outdated - if you are on a mailinglist that does not
> allow HTML it will take 1-2 mails before you are told so.
> 
> So I think that when Scarlett is now updating the documentation let us also
> modernise what was written for Kmail v1 and move with the times.
> 
> Regards,
> Sinclair
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It is the weekend, and I hope everyone is enjoying theirs! I am going to wait 
a few days for more advice on this and work on it as a seperate patch. 
Scarlett
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