Re: [Pan-users] Reading an HTML posting when using 'old' Pan

[Steven D'Aprano]

Rui Maciel wrote:
> On 02/09/2012 01:47 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > The war against bad netiquette in mail and newsgroups, of course. 
>
> I don't see that "war" as having been lost.  Bottom-posting is still the 
> norm and HTML isn't used a lot (rarely, if all) in emails and it is 
> non-existent in Usenet.

You don't get out much, do you?

You're wrong about this. Top-posting HTML email is sadly the norm now, 
although in technical mailing lists there is still good behaviour. But 
technical mailing lists are a specialist niche. Between Outlook, Hotmail, 
Lotus Notes, and Gmail, good email practice is vanishing.

As for HTML on Usenet, it does exist, even on technical forums, especially 
when they have an email to news gateway. Here are some examples:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/687231

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/10d5661ebc759e16

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2011-October/1282051.html

http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg52817.html

(Note that many web archives strip out the HTML and only archive the plain 
text.)



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Steven