>> Unsubscribe Pynchon-list <<

[Paul Mackin]

all very true

in using gmail which is better--default encoding or UTF-8?

seem to be only two choices

I'm  new to windows and gmail

P

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Ray Easton <kraimie at kraimie.net> wrote:

> David Morris wrote:
>
>> I guess we all have our thresholds.  But, really, how imposing is it
>> to post plain text.  Sometimes nannies are right.
>>
>>
>>
> If Kai, or anyone else, wants to post in some manner other than plain text,
> why the hell is that anyone's concern?  If someone can't read it, then they
> can't read it -- so what?  They'll miss out on what Kai has to say, but if
> Kai doesn't care, so what?  The post will be unreadable in the archives, or
> in the digest, but again, so what?  If Kai doesn't care, who else should?
> It is one thing to point out to the list that posts not in plain text will
> be unreadable in the archives and in the digest.  And, knowing this, those
> who care about such things might then decide to post in plain text.  But it
> is another thing entirely to badger a poster who chooses to ignore this.
>  Sometimes nannies *are* right, but even when they are, the p-list hardly
> seems a place for them.
>
> Ray
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20081216/958026ff/attachment-0001.html>