David Akbari  writes:

> Of course it's nice of you to point this out, but what I still fail to 
> comprehend completely is the problem with posting plain text plus 
> appended rich text format.
>
> MS Entourage, Apple's default Mail and other apps like Kontakt in the 
> KDE package for Linux are all able to display rich text format in 
> incoming email messages.

There are still many people using mail programs that do not,
however. Since you only posted text anyway, why not be polite and post
it so that they can read it too?

> If this is part of "Csound list policy" then it should definitely be
> documented on the Sourceforge Project page as well as safeguards
> built into the ezmlm program to prevent the posting of embedded XML
> flags in text messages. That will prevent the relay of any message
> sent with RTF and HTML flags generated from "incompatible" mail
> clients.

I would say there's no need for an explicit policy, since it's already
widespread netiquette to only post plain text messages to mailing
lists.