On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 09:57:50AM -0500, Mark H. Wood wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:14:25AM -0600, Jim Graham wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:45:01AM -0500, Peter Davis wrote: > > > Bear in mind that this list, by it's very subject matter, self-selects > > > for members who tend towards old school tools and technologies. Mutt > > > users are obviously more likely to be strict about text-only, > > > 72-column wrapped messages than users of, say, GMail. > > > > Ok, I've seen this enough times now that I have to ask.... What is it > > about having a .gmail e-mail address that implies lack of proper > > formatting for e-mail? > > I don't think it was about sending mail through a .gmail address; it > was about using the GMail web thingy to compose the mail being sent, > wasn't it?
Actually, it wasn't about GMail at all. It was about the fact that millions of email users don't care about line wrapping, or text/plain, or any of these other 40 year old conventions. The mutt-users group just happens to represent the minuscule segment of the email population that is still concerned about such things. The "99%" are perfectly happy using email (primarily HTML, I suspect) to communicate with one another. -pd ---- The Tech Curmudgeon www.techcurmudgeon.com
