Re: Reply text insertion

2014-06-16 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello MFPA, On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 11:50:57 +0100 GMT (15-Jun-14, 17:50 +0700 GMT), MFPA wrote: Most emails (like the text messages here) do not require HTML and should be sent as plaintext. I would say that no email requires HTML, only a very few emails benefit from it's use, That either

Re: Reply text insertion

2014-06-16 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Jack, On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 18:14:42 -0500 GMT (16-Jun-14, 06:14 +0700 GMT), Jack S. LaRosa wrote: All excellent points. I must confess to not knowing that your descriptions of *bold*, /italics/ and _underline_ were commonly accepted methods of expressing those features in plaintext.

Re: Reply text insertion

2014-06-16 Thread Adrian Godfrey
Monday, June 16, 2014, 12:42:51 AM, you wrote: And even if the recipient views in HTML, their viewing settings may be wildly different to your own, so they don't see what you imagine they might. Not to mention all those crazy colours that make a lot of HTML mails extremely difficult to

Re: Reply text insertion

2014-06-16 Thread Adrian Godfrey
Monday, June 16, 2014, 1:14:42 AM, you wrote: I too have a Gmail account which I seldom use because TB! far exceeds Gmail. I have a gmail account as well. The only time I went to the website was to create that address in the first place (or to resolve those pesky web login required

Re: Reply text insertion

2014-06-16 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Adrian, On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 16:30:12 +0200 GMT (16-Jun-14, 21:30 +0700 GMT), Adrian Godfrey wrote: And even if the recipient views in HTML, their viewing settings may be wildly different to your own, so they don't see what you imagine they might. Not to mention all those crazy

Re: Reply text insertion

2014-06-16 Thread Adrian Godfrey
Monday, June 16, 2014, 4:44:06 PM, you wrote: Wasted bandwidth: Not an issue in the 21st century. Of course it's a waste. Why send the same message twice? Even without roaming charges, many providers have daily volume limits. Plain text is more than adequate. I agree attachments don't