On Thursday 22 October 2009, Colin Howarth wrote:
> > If I need to fire up a browser (or other viewer) in order to read a
> > mail, I will probably not bother and just skip it.
> 
> I think most people's mail clients can cope. It feels quite wrong, but
> would make it easier to include code snippets within text and still
> have it readable.

General rule of thumb on mailing lists:  don't ever send
mail formatted with anything fancier than newlines, tabs,
and spaces.

And sadly, some firm up in Redmond WA has done its level
best to even bork that much ... tabs sometimes don't
make it through safely.

So RTF is out.  So is HTML.

If you're sending code, the expectiation is that the
recipient should be able to save your email and then
pull that directly into a program editor.  That rules
out any formatting that's not part of the programming
language.
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