[FFML] Question about how to keep the text as is after submitted

[Rebecca Heineman]

I'm with Arthur on this one. I've long since moved on to HTML and DOC files
for my stories since it's better told with formatting. I keep PDF versions
on my site for anyone who wishes to read them. For the very, very select few
who insist on reading in ASCII, it's trivial for them to copy the text and
paste it into a plain text file for their offline reading.

My prose is formatted on Fanfiction.net, so if you want to see it visible
from a web browser, I keep copies of my stories there as well.

It's 2008, not 1988. Why doesn't a mailing list that celebrates the written
word not allow those words to be shown in the way the writer intended them
to appear?

Becky

My cell phone supports formatting...

> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Dennis Carr
> <dennisthetiger at chez-vrolet.net> wrote:
>> The point is that I run the list like this because the vast majority of
>> us like it like this, but moreover, *I* like it like this.  This is
>> pretty much how the list will run.  If UTF-8 is broken on list, no
>> problem, I'll fix it - it's trivial, and is characters.  But HTML and
>> RTF will remain formata non grata on this list, and we ask that you
>> adhere to that request.
>> 
>> -Dennis
>> (list op)
> 
> Which is pretty much why the mailing list is dying. I won't post here
> for actual stories anymore and I know I'm not the only one.
> 
> In a time when you should be looking to add value and features, we get
> "don't need no stinking change."