On Fri, 25 May 2018 20:39:26 -0400 Ken Hornstein <[email protected]> sez:
> >Count me as another one of those few people who actually uses the
> >text/plain content. :-) For the most part, I don't read emails that are
> >HTML only unless I absolutely have to and if there's a text/plain I
> >manage with that unless it's terrible.
>
> My original draft of that email said "you're probably the only person
> who uses the the text/plain content", but then I remembered what mailing
> list I am on :-)
Guilty as charged. ^_^;;;
> My larger point is that, sadly, I've seen a distressing number of times
> when the text/plain version of a multipart/alternative message is not
> useful. I really wish people who have a shitty text/plain part would
> simply NOT bother and just generate text/html; I don't know why they
> even bother to generate such a lousy text/plain part, but this is the
> world we live in. I suspect we (nmh users) might be the only users who
> actually look at the text/plain content versus the text/html content.
It's almost certainly the case that the percentage of people that
see the crap-HTML is tiny. Otherwise outfits like Yahoo! would
be overwhelmed with complaints. B-[
Bob
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