Re: List Header complaints
Re: List Header complaints
- Subject: Re: List Header complaints
- From: Randall R Schulz <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 20:45:34 -0800
John,
On your point (b) I have to disagree.
I can (and have) supressed the informative header fields inserted by
the new list reflector. I cannot do this with added boiler-plate text
within the body of the message. If I need to see a suppressed header
field, I can just click the "blah blah blah" button and they'll
reappear.
I know not all mailers are as sophisticated as Eudora, but Eudora is
reasonably inexpensive and on the Mac, anyway, clearly the best mail
client available.
I'm happy with list server-generated, per-message content if I can
elide it. I strongly dislike it when I cannot.
I don't see the connect in your point (c). How does styled text
(which I'd like to have allowed) relate to informative headers or
footers?
I say keep the informative headers as they are!
Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA
At 22:00 -0400 11/1/00, John MacDonald wrote:
List members,
Since, surprisingly, there's no complaint link in the new list
header, I'll make my complaints here, hoping that those responsible
for the list at least moderate it.
...
b) *IF* a list of links is required with every post, it should be
placed at the bottom of the message (as mentioned by others).
c) A list mechanism that won't support styled text (something that
would very useful to the list's members) shouldn't be cluttering up
the system with a lengthy header.
My advice: Instead of the link header, provide a footer with a
single link to a web page that features the many links available and
possibly, if the list must cater to the email-only crowd, a 'mailto'
link that sends return mail with the current list of lists.
...
-John