Peter Shute writes: > I've seen a plain text section that didn't match the html version > (if I'm remembering that incident correctly).
Indeed, occasionally you'll see the arrogant "your MUA doesn't deal with MIME properly" notice in a text/plain MIME part, rather than in the preamble. > > Nonetheless, IMHO HTMLized email the way of the future so > > we'd better get used to dealing with it. > > Yes, whether we like it or not. It's a pity though that such > complex HTML is used. Do we really need anything more than the > ability to bold and underline? I'd be happy with some of the basic > Structured Text formatting commands, which have the advantage that > they're still intelligible in plain text. You'd be amazed what teenage girls will do in an HTML email using a WYSIWYG editor. The point of the brain damage is like proprietary drivers in the Linux kernel: trying to provide features that the competition doesn't, in a non-standard way so that they can't just fix their editors. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
