Crossposting web page stuff

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Luko:
>   I can't read stuff like this:
>
>MAD> <!--INSERT200004-->
>MAD> <LI type=square><A HREF="/nca/features/2000/04/F.RU.000420133950.htm
>MAD> l">Kazakhsta n:</a> Oil Find May Renew Struggle For Influence<br>
>MAD> <LI type=square><A HREF="/nca/features/2000/04/F.RU.000418131426.htm

I meant to mention this to Mine offline, but just a reminder to her and
anybody else who has joined the list recently. I am a FANATIC when it comes
to legibility. Luko wrote me privately informing me that my posts were
using the wrong subject header when I replied to a previous post--something
I had been doing only to save typing in the list address. To keep him
happy, I changed this practice.

So I am requesting that Mine stop crossposting material, no matter the
value. Yesterday it incorporated the dreaded "spillover" and today the
embedded html is not readable. When you copy directly from a web page and
paste into a mailer, the results are PREDICTABLY unreadable. The reason for
this is quite simple. They are two different mediums. Mailers like Eudora
or Microsoft are designed to sent out a text message. They are not set up
to handle WYSIWYG. Something that looks readable on a web page is not
readable when you send it out as an email unless you take the time to
reformat it.

It costs me about one thousand dollars a year to keep this mail list going.
By using a private ISP, we avoid the messy compromises that are involved
with using a university server. By avoiding egroup.com, etc., we don't have
to put up with ads for laxatives and cheap airline tickets. I don't mind
paying for the service. I have a good paying programmer's job and very
little interests me besides networking with Marxists. All I ask in return
is a little conscientiousness when it comes to the cosmetics of a post. I
like to think of this mailing list as being something like a journal. If
you submitted something to a journal that avoided paragraph breaks, that
had quarter-inch margins, it might get rejected no matter how brilliant the
content.

Louis Proyect
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