Hi Chris, With your late entry :) we can raise the "Prefer Plain Text" but "Multipart is Fine" count to 3.
The newbies are why I suggested that maybe we should have a note about the preference to send in plain text (or at lease unformatted html) on the signup pages. Does your client not dynamically wrap the text in a HTML email? I thought that was one of the things about HTML, it was supposed to dynamically wrap text as the window size changed, well, unless <pre> tags or some other type of specific formatting is applied. Regards David Chris Travers wrote: > Just a couple things to keep in mind though: > > We can expect many newbies on this list (particularly the -users list) > and many may not yet appreciate the value of text-only email. > > While I certainly prefer text-only, I think it is worth being fairly > forgiving on this list. One thing I would note is that while I do > often try to read html messages, I long text lines are harder on the > eyes and it's more likely that I will miss something if I am in a > hurry. Of course many email clients suck and we have to expect that > as a problem too.... > > Best Wishes, > Chris Travers > > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 5:15 PM, David Godfrey <lsmb...@sbts.com.au> wrote: >> Ok So I am a day late, >> I said I would get this sent on Friday, and plumb forgot! >> >> The results on the poll were surprising considering the amount of HTML mail >> seen >> on the list. >> They were also disappointing, out of the entire subscriber base, there we >> only >> 16 responses. >> >> 2 Don't Care >> 2 Multi Part is fine >> 12 Prefer Text only >> >> In some cases multipart or HTML won't be read or have increased likelyhood of >> being scored as spam. >> >> I will respond to Strollers excellent comments in a separate email. >> Thank you to all who responded, many of you raised valid and interesting >> points. >> >> Personally I am happy to send in Plain Text, although I consider the lack of >> "flowed text" in most clients (including thunderbird) to be a major issue. >> >> Since before I started this thread, my client has been set to send "plain >> text >> only", I sent the original email in HTML to attract attention. It certainly >> seems to have worked! :) >> >> With regard to Multipart email, in general I don't like it, partly because >> of a >> "feature" of thunderbird, and partly because the plain text version of a >> message >> written in HTML will often be incorrectly formatted. >> Thunderbird, and some other clients treat multipart sections as attachments >> (including vcards that outlook often sends) and on recent releases consumes a >> large chunk of screen displaying ICONS for each attached file (or mime part) >> In the old days it was not so bad, the attachments were listed as text, and >> often in a pane that was collapsed by default, sadly this is no longer the >> case. >> I suppose I really should come up with a suggested solution and raise a bug >> :( >> >> Once again thank you to all who participated, and may the list stay HTML >> free. >> >> Regards >> David Godfrey >> >> David Godfrey wrote: >>> Hi Everyone, >>> >>> The reason for this poll is below (for those that are interested) >>> >>> I would like to know how many people >>> a) are happy to receive html >>> b) prefer plain text >>> c) require plain text >>> >>> At the end of the week (Friday GMT+8) I will post the results >>> >>> Regards >>> David Godfrey >>> >>> ======= >>> >>> Just recently I have had two people on the lists query me, >>> Asking if I intended to send email in HTML >>> >>> Well actually, yes, I guess I did. >>> Partly because most people have HTML capable browsers, >>> and long before I sent an email on the list I had noticed that many >>> contributors also sent in HTML. >>> This made me think it was not a problem. >>> >>> I understand why mutt users may not like HTML, in it's standard form >>> mutt displays the html source. >>> There are probably other clients that this is also a problem for. >>> >>> One problem with plain text and modern clients, is that text is wrapped >>> at the senders end. >>> Normally to something like 72characters. >>> This is a huge waste of screen space where you may easily have 160 to >>> 300 or more characters available on a modern screen. >>> Worse is when the sender has changed the default to something large, >>> then you often have to scroll left and right as well as up and down to >>> see the whole message. >>> HTML on the other hand allows for dynamic rewrapping of the text by the >>> receiving client. >>> The sentence before last was all one line. >>> Change the width of this window, it should rewrap the text dynamically. >>> >>> HTML also allows simple formatting changes (_/*like this*/_) that can >>> often assist with readability. >>> >>> Either way the poll will tell us what everyone prefers. >>> >>> Regards >>> David Godfrey >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation >>> Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best 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