On 10/13/2016 04:39 PM, Gregg Reynolds wrote: > there are at least two problems: >
> 2) many messages to the list are effectively unreadable in the archives. > (I'm looking at you, Samsung.) we cannot force people to configure their > email clients, but I'll bet we could reject messages that do not play nice > with others, which would be a strong incentive. > > gregg I've tried to inquire about the archive part of this before here on the list, without getting responses. The archiving software in use "scrubs" styled (usually html-styled) email, which as you've seen makes it essentially unusable. Long-standing open source practice is to use plain-text-only for mailing lists. Unfortunately most Samsung people (I do see you looking at us!) don't have an option to fix their end of the story, styled email simply cannot be turned off for the client those folks are required to use for email sent from inside the company. I have the impression the plain-text-only thing is just generally dying. I think you can still twist gmail to do better, for example, but I'm not 100% sure that's true nor how long will continue to be. Outlook doesn't really make it easy either. I think we're going have to adapt to using different archiving software.
