[Python-Dev] regarding HTML mail (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Mon Mar 19 19:20:46 CET 2012

On Mar 19, 2012, at 05:25 PM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:

apology: I searched for a few minutes and could not find a code of conduct regarding HTML mail.

I'm not sure it's written down anywhere, but in general we strongly discourage HTML email for the lists @python.org

Can we have some guideline to allow only plain text emails, so as to avoid cases like http://mail.python.org/pipermail/docs/2012-March/007999.html, where you are forced to scroll horizontally in order to read the text.

docs is a different mailing list than python-dev, but still neither list is doing any content filtering. We could always enable that if we wanted to get strict about it.

In this case, this isn't html email, it's likely this bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/558294

Cheers, -Barry

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