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Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Tue May 28 18:38:01 UTC 2013


On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 01:53:20PM -0400, Mike wrote:
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Lennart Sorensen <
> lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > > Don't forget Postel's Law, as enshrined in RFC1122: “Be liberal in what
> > > you accept, and conservative in what you send”.
> >
> > Which means, don't send HTML.
> >
> > It also means, in exactly equal measure, that you should receive it
> graciously.

HTML doesn't render well in general on a text terminal, and I tend to
read my email via ssh using mutt.

If formating is important, send a pdf or something.  Not as if HTML
ensures formating very well at all.

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