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[Gregory Foster]

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On 10/7/13 7:54 PM, Al Billings wrote:
> Get off my lawn!
> 
> (top posted, of course!)
> 
> -- Al Billings http://makehacklearn.org
> 
> On Monday, October 7, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Sandy Harris wrote:
> 
>> It is the sender's job. No-one should be sending such stuff to a
>> public list since it serves no useful purpose. If your client
>> won't send clean ASCII-only email, then switch to a client that
>> will.


May I propose an inductive hypothesis, akin to Godwin's Law[1]:

As time passes on any email list configured to accept HTML email, the
probability of the occurrence of the[2] HTML/ASCII email conversation
approaches 1.

gf

[1] Wikipedia - "Godwin's Law"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

[2] Note the intentional use of "the" to signify a singular
conversation, as the substance of this conversation is always the
same, though the outcome depends wholly on the constitution of any
particular list's constituents.

- -- 
Gregory Foster || gfoster at entersection.org
@gregoryfoster <> http://entersection.com/
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