atw: Howard Silcock's question about email formatting policies.

Howard asked: "I have been conscientiously sending my posts in
plain-text format because I thought that was a requirement of the list.
But I prefer to be able to use some formatting... Was I imagining that
requirement - and if not does it still apply? Do these formatted posts
cause problems for some people?"

Formatting is nice, but the even nicer thing about exchanging emails in
plain text is that if they have no attachments they are guaranteed free
of computer viruses. Thus my personal policy is to keep to plain text
unless the formatting is genuinely critical to the communication.

Bill
 

William P. (Bill) Hall, PhD
Documentation & KM Systems Analyst
Head Office/Engineering
Nelson House Annex, Nelson Place
Williamstown, Vic. 3016 Australia
Tel: +61 3 9244 4820
Email: bill.hall@xxxxxxxxx
URL: http://www.tenix.com <http://www.tenix.com/> 

Visiting Faculty Associate
University of Technology Sydney

Senior Fellow
Australian Centre for Science, Innovation and Society
History and Philosophy of Science
University of Melbourne
Email: whall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
URL: http://www.acsis.unimelb.edu.au/ 

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