RE: What's causing this?

It certainly is nice to know that something has been changed, but since what 
you suggested was that emphasis has been removed one only knows that something 
is gone, but now that we receive only the modified plain text we don't know 
what is gone.  What must do?  Go back to the original sender saying "hey - what 
did the mailer take out?  Not likely anyone will do that on the volume of 
messages with this feature.  So I would tend to agree with Lief, why not just 
remove the notice completely and thus remove additional clutter from our 
messages.

Andy Leisk
Senior Programmer Analyst
Banta Global Turnkey Group
Menasha WI USA
Phone: 920-751-4434




-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Rowe [mailto:martin@dbg400.net]
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 10:13 AM
To: midrange-nontech@midrange.com
Subject: Re: What's causing this?


On Wednesday 22 August 2001 3:38 pm, Leif Svalgaard wrote:
> fine, but isn't there a way of stripping the
> annoying noise [picked from etc] off?

Hi Leif

But how would you then know the posting hadn't been originally in plain text
- it would look as though that was the entire posting. It might not seem like
much of a problem, but it's a kind of editing, so the software's action
shouldn't be transparent. One example of where it *might* be a problem is
where the original html contains some emphasis or other html only feature
that is lost in the plain text version, and the author's intended meaning
doesn't quite come through in plain text. It's easy enough to misconstrue
meaning in postings, and if the original _relied_ on html emphasis, then it
makes it worse. At least this way you know the post has been modified.

Plus how else would you know who the guilty people are that don't stick to
the mailing list rules and post plain text only ;-)

Regards, Martin

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