mail formats (WAS P vs N lists)

[Kevin Troy]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, pynchon-l-digest wrote:
> From: David Morris <fqmorris at yahoo.com>
> Subject: P VS N Lists
> > > --- Mondegreen <gwf at greenworldcenter.org> wrote:
> > > > The Nabokov forum has a dress code. Being moderated, it has no flames,
> > > > [...]
>
> I agree with your assessment above.  Also, I hate the formatting of the posts
> as they arrive in the form of "forwards" through the mailbox of the moderator,
> full of ">"'s preceding every line, making the posts nearly unreadable.  Just
> try reading the archives and you'll see what I mean.
>
>  David Morris

On that point, I humbly ask those p-listers who use GUI e-mail clients
(Outlook, AOL, yahoo and other web services) to disable HTML formatting
when posting to pynchon-l.  Doing so would make reading the digest version
of the list (which is what what Dr. Johnson is forwarding to NABOKV-L)
much easier.  A-and you don't need to worry about hyperlinks:  most modern
e-mail clients will automatically activate URLs, even if the message
received was not HTML-formatted.

Example of how to do this, using MS Outlook:  go to the Tools menu, select
options, then go to the "mail format tab," then use the drop-down menu to
choose "plain text" as your mail format.

Questions about mail formats and their relation to informational entropy
should be directed to your potsmaster.

Thanks,
Kevin T.