On 2020-05-02, Derek Martin <inva...@pizzashack.org> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 06:57:14PM +0100, Sam Kuper wrote:
>> Moreover, you appear to be committing the logical fallacy called >> "argumentum ad populum" (aka "majoritarianism"). > > No, because accepted practice is determined by the majority (in this > case overwhelmingly so), so it's actually the point, not a logic > fallacy. Indeed. E-mail is like a language. It's defined by everyday usage. To claim that you get to define what's "proper usage", when 99% of the other users disagree with you would make Humpty-Dumpyty pround. I would prefer that everybody in the world used e-mail clients that could handle plaintext. But they don't. _Nobody_ I work with uses an email client that properly displays plaintext as sent by mutt. For a while, I used muttdown to generage mixed/alternatve plaintext and html. That worked very nicely. Now "they" have shut off the Exchange SMTP/IMAP services, so I had to switch to hiri/OWA. [I still write much of my e-mail in markdown and paste the result into hiri/OWA.] Most of my family and friends do almost all of their e-mail on phones. Plaintext is very hard to read on small screans because it doesn't re-flow to fit the screen width. Forcing people to read plaintext on small screens is, IMO, inconsiderate. Insisting that the world switch from HTML to plaintext for e-mail is just tilting at a windmill. -- Grant
