On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 11:47 PM, Blaise Alleyne <email+libre@blaise.ca> wrote:
On 14-12-16 04:21 PM, Thomas Milne wrote:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014, 3:58 PM Loui Chang <louipc.ist@gmail.com <mailto:louipc.ist@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Tue 16 Dec 2014 14:39 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > 2) We would have to help people configure their email clients to send > > plain text emails. > > Rather that, than unusable emails. > > > If your solution to #2 is they can just Google it, you could also > > Google how to read HTML email in your email client. > > It can't. At least not in a way that I can reply to cleanly in plain > text. > > So unless people don't expect replies to their email, they better not > send them in html in the first place. So you may as well just block > them and let the user know why it was blocked.
Get a better mail client or configure it properly. I only check my email in a terminal and don't really have problems reading or replying to HTML mail.
Yes, I do prefer text, but realize there are a lot of mailing lists that only send HTML and clients/devices that make it difficult for the user to write plain text mail.
It's much easier to configure your client properly than to get everyone to stop using HTML email (which will never happen).
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Well if you apply such all or nothing thinking, you can dismiss almost any standard or rule. Why bother if not everyone will obey? Of course not everyone will obey every rule but they are still useful and this one is very reasonable to ask.
Thomas... you realize that both the emails you sent to the list on the subject of not using HTML email... were HTML emails... right?
I'm not sure if that was intentional satire... :)
(No, Gmail is not sending plain text email.)
OH HOW EMBARRASSING Anyway it's not GMail's fault it's mine. I've been using Inbox, the hip new thing from Google. I assumed since Lennart was not scolding me I was okay :-) -- Thomas Milne