[blml] Without merit?

[Brian]

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:45:13 -0700
"raija" <mustikka at charter.net> wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Brian" <bmeadows666 at gmail.com>
> > Well, in the format in which it arrived here, it was rather
> > difficult to read the hand and the bidding. The decisions and
> > rulings were OK, though. I'll cut and paste the top of the original
> > message (below) so you can see what I mean.
> >
> > Brian.
> 
> This is the format it arrived to me, perfectly legible, nicely
> spaced.   I use simple old Outlook Express to read newsgroups and
> mail.
> 

And your copy appeared to me in exactly the same way as Grattan's did,
i.e. with the format all over the place. 

The problem with posting with a client such as Outlook Express is that
unless you're careful in setting it up, you're (possibly unknowingly)
embedding Microsoft's standards into your mail. The idea of mailing
lists is that they are supposed to be a TEXT medium, that's as in just
plain ASCII, so that people who don't use the same proprietary software
as you can read the postings as well. 

I'm not prepared to go to the trouble of setting up something like OE to
run under a Windows emulator, mainly because I don't see why I (and
presumably any other Linux user) should have to. My mail and news
client works just fine for all the other lists and newsgroups I read,
I'm not about to run different clients for different lists/newsgroups.
Mac users may have a similar viewpoint (Ed, did Grattan's post appear
OK to you?)


Brian. 

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