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

[Thomas Milne]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 11:47 PM, Blaise Alleyne <email+libre at 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 at gmail.com <mailto:louipc.ist at 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