Just a reminder: no MIME/HTML/e-junk on Statalist please!
Set your mailer to Plain Text or the equivalent.
If you try to send non-plain text mails (those
encoded, or formatted, or with e-junk such
as winmail.dat files attached) to the list,
1. Often the Statalist software traps it,
and it will not get through. Then you may waste
your time, or Marcello Pagano's, or even mine,
sending emails saying why didn't my email get
through? The answer is because you didn't read,
mark, learn and inwardly digest the Statalist
FAQ explaining why there is this request
and how to honour it.
2. Sometimes it gets through to Statalist,
but usually with bad side-effects:
a. It may be impossible for some members
to read. This reduces the probability that
such members will reply to your question
and/or feel well-disposed towards you.
b. It messes up the Statalist digest or
the archives. Similar comment to a.
c. Sometimes people can read your
message, but their reply is affected
by similar problems, because their mailer,
loosely speaking, uses the same formatting.
This embarrasses them and irritates third
parties.
d. The contents bloat people's mailboxes.
For example, just now, someone sent
a great big chunk of HTML and this
affected the form of the reply.
Nick
[email protected]
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