David Cantrell wrote:
FWIW, Thunderbird DTRT, putting the URL in the status bar at the bottom of the window. Of course, that it handles HTML at all is Hateful, as it panders to the hateful people who choose to use HTML mail.
I think that "choose" is quite a strong word. For what ever reason they use the Email client that is put in front of them, probably the corporate IT standard or the one that is on the machine when they get it. Or they use a hotmail account because that is the easiest way of getting email that isn't tied to a particular machine.
Someone somewhere has decided that these programs/ webmail systems default to HTML and made it as hard for a non techy person to switch it off. But it is not the person sending it who has deliberately chosen this.
