Re: Do we need a way to moderate mailing lists?

> Also, could it be possible to make messages plain text? I see a lot
> of varying fancy fonts and I hate that. I even hate it more when
> people post messages not properly trimmed or messages that need
> formatting preserved such as select output, i.e. table data, explain
> plans, etc. Proportional fonts (Outlook with its darn Arial) is one
> of the worst...

Well, one could say that with html messages one can "force" a
monospaced font like consolas or courier. Then again, there is no
guarantee that the receiving end does have it installed. And on top,
everyone is free to have her/his mail client to display plain text in
monospaced font and is only to blame her/himself if not doing so.

> And then there's people posting screen shots instead of copy/paste... :-(

+1

> I think, an automatic conversion of incoming posts to plain text and
> dropping all non plain text attachments would help a lot already.

I would not do that. It is the work on the wrong end with doubtful
result. Wouldn't it be better to reject non-plain-text postings?

While at it, is there a rule of thumb for the length of inline code -
in comparison to attaching code files in comparison to using something
like pastebin.com? I only found very coarse instructions on what to do
on the lists. Have I been missing a link to a netiquette page?

Cheers Thiemo

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