Re: [Asrg] Grouped reply on permissions lists

Could we please cancel this thread (and not cc it to wishlist@microsoft.com).

People use formatted email.  Whether they need, or want to is besides 
the point.  They do.  No amount of talking is going to set back the 
clock to the days of the ascii internet.  Let's talk about things 
that can actually be changed, not fantasies where clueless "lusers" 
don't understand the damage they are doing by sending graphical 
smiley faces to their Aunt Lucy, but would happily change their 
behavior and start typing in compressed hacker speak if it were just 
nicely explained to them.  While we're at it--let's explain to them 
why they shouldn't litter either--that should be even easier.

And seriously.  Even if you believe that blocking HTML is feasible. 
It isn't going to make the slightest bit of difference in the amount 
of spam that gets sent.  Spammers do their best to make their email 
look like real email to the end user.  If the end user gets email as 
plain text, then spammers will send plain text.  This isn't rocket 
science--it's basic economics.

At that point, Gordon falls back on the argument that at least we 
will have saved in the number of *bytes* sent.  Which is true.  But 
saving bytes is not the charter of this group.
-- 
Kee Hinckley
http://www.messagefire.com/          Anti-Spam Service for your POP Account
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/   Writings on Technology and Society

I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.

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