Tim Gruene <[email protected]> writes: > [summer break flame] > I'm sure there are a lot more computer admins than crystallographers who > prefer high-tech over fancyness - aka outlook usually marking my signed(!) > emails as spam ;-) > > And, yes, I know that both thunderbird/enigmail and kmail combine both very > elegantly, but with mutt I can simply use an ssh-client to read my email from > anywhere in the world without having to worry too much about security whereas > I shall not configure some internet-cafe's email client with my credentials to > read my mail in the absence of a private internet connection.. > [/summer break flame] > > Cheers, Tim > > > On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 11:09:46AM +0200, Flip Hoedemaeker wrote: >> Leave it to the crystallographers to be the last on the Planet with >> text-only email readers.... Just before the ccp4bb will migrate to >> google+ :) >> >> Flip
[...] Well, I’d like to plonk my support behind good old plain text. I think there are valid reasons for it which are nothing to do with Luddism. The more formatting you put into your emails (unnecessarily, I would say), the more you’re constraining how your emails should be read. Some people might want or need to read your email in a much larger font than you would use. There is a legitimate use for HTML email, in science you might well want to illustrate your thoughts with graphs and chemical diagrams, but HTML for everything as a default, I don’t like! Remember Homer Simpson’s web page? Of course purists would say the most universal email format is US-ASCII, format=flowed… -- Ian Clifton ⚗ Phone: +44 1865 275677 Chemistry Research Laboratory Fax: +44 1865 285002 Oxford University [email protected] Mansfield Road Oxford OX1 3TA UK
