[GTALUG] HTML-only email messages on the mailing list (was Python 2 vs python 3 debate)

[Thomas Milne]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014, 3:55 PM Lennart Sorensen <lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 03:49:09PM -0500, Stewart Russell wrote:
> > There may be no other option. Also, many clients hide or fudge the
> > status. For instance, Gmail is currently claiming that it's going to
> > send this as plain text with no extraneous quoting. Will it do this? I
> > won't know until I send it.
> >
> > For all its faults, Mozilla Thunderbird can quote HTML to plain text
> > quite well. But I'm sure there are many ways to mess up a reply to a
> > plain text message by quoting in the standard way. That which passes
> > for plain text is a minefield of assumptions (Your English Must Only
> > Have 26 Characters, and Criminally Limited Punctuation) leading to
> > naïve "markup free" limited solutions like Markdown.
>
> It also for the longest time would not actually put '>' on the lines of
> the plain text if you asked it to send both html and plain text versions.
> Not sure that bug has ever been fixed.
>
> And it is hardly a useful email client when you do email over ssh.
> I use mutt and edit with vim.
>
> > Unfortunately, if you're going to block replies based on e-mail
> > format, you'll get a dwindling number of participants in the mailing
> > list. And nothing kills off user groups like lack of participation.
>
> I will happily ignore html messages and not reply to them.
>
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> Len Sorensen
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For me it has always been a very simple logical request. There is no
benefit at all to using HTML in this list, and there are tons and tons of
drawbacks to using it.

GMail and now even Inbox seem to always default to plain text for me
anyway, at least AFAICT.
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