Al Billings wrote 2013-10-18 03:57:

   Cypherpunks: where old net fogies argue about top posting and HTML in
   email.

   How 1998.

   There is a way of keeping informed that is disturbed by HTML (and
   sometimes by top posting). Firstly, HTML-forums with threads are out of
   the question because it takes way too much time to find out if
   something of interest has been posted. You can't rely on thread
   subjects for that. The old mail-list format is much more reliable if
   you don't want to miss anything.
   Also, if you don't want to miss anything, you are probably subscribing
   to the cypherpunks, cryptography@randombits, cryptography@metzdowd and
   cryptopolitics (low volume at the moment) lists, often receiving a
   hundred postings every day, or more. Including doubles and triples
   reposted by Eugene Leitl. To scan these postings with the
   quick-browse/delete-method (3-4 posts a second) is significantly,
   irritatingly slower if you have to wait for the fractions of a second
   that the HTML needs to load.
   Mob
   crypto-groupie
   Stockholm