[HPFGU-Feedback] HTML or Not, Attribution, and Web Forums

[Melissa McCarthy]

Replies to a bunch of things in here....

First, attribution: There would be some sense to having a standard, as Shaun
suggested.  I think the easiest way would be to have both the nesting
attributions with the ">" marks and the other poster's name at the beginning
of each block of quoted text.  That way it's obvious where everything is
coming from, and putting the names in front of each block of text makes it
easier for those whose attention tends to wander (guilty...), particularly
in a long post with a lot of quotations from many different posters.

Next, HTML: I would very strongly prefer to have only plain-text email.
HTML email is just a pain in the neck, especially when people decide to
change the font size/colour or add backgrounds (especially moving
backgrounds... my eyes... my EYES...) or do other such clever things.
There's also the issue of how much space they take up in the inbox.  It is
possible, BTW, to be subscribed to HPFGU with a free account such as Hotmail
as long as the mail is in plain-text.  I used Hotmail a while ago and was
subscribed to so many lists that I was getting as much mail as HPFGU
generates every day, and I never had any problems as long as I was careful
about checking email every day.  Really, anyone on a list as productive as
this one has to check his/her email every day to have any hope of keeping up
with it all!

Aaand web forums: Frankly, I'd leave HPFGU (very sadly) if it switched to
being a web forum.  I find them inconvenient and I don't like the way
they're set up.  That's purely a personal preference, but IMO the list's
format isn't broken, so why try to fix it?

Melissa, who is up way past her bedtime