On Monday 26 April 2004 20:02, Steve Steiner wrote:
> Can you explain the reasoning behind this policy?
Sure. NKS has set up the mail server to bounce any email with html tags. This
is an anti-spam measure that, unfortunately, encompasses our list. To keep
postings from bouncing, we need to keep html tags out of the messages. If
you include html tags in your messages, they will bounce. Nobody will
penalize you for doing that. Your message simply will not be posted.
NKS sponsors our list as a charitable means to assist the open source/free
software community. I do not think we are in a position to insist they make
some special arrangement for the very rare instance, and this has been only
once in over a year this list has been operational, someone uses html tags in
a message. Bear in mind that this list has very liberal posting policies:
No spam, no libel and any hostile disputes shall be taken off the list. The
html tag policy is a technical one, not one dealing with ethics.
Regards,
Smitty
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