On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 17:07:00 +0100, Jaroslaw Rafa stated: >Dnia 20.03.2020 o godz. 11:48:59 Gerard E. Seibert pisze: >> >> When I receive an email, I have two immediate choices to make; either >> read it or don't read it. > >Let's say I decide to read it, so I press ENTER on the message header. >If it's plaintext, I continue straight on to reading it. >If it's HTML (without corresponding alternate plaintext part), I see >only a bunch of unreadable HTML tags. Sometimes even whem plaintext >part is present, it's formatted as everything-in-one-long-line, which >is also hardly readable. >Then I have to back out to message index, display attachment list for >the message, find the HTML part and press ENTER on it to launch web >browser and view the message in browser. >So it's much more effort needed to read HTML-only mail compared to >plaintext. > >> I have >> yet to understand this hatred of HTML email. > >Is it easier to understand now? :)
No, it doesn't. I don't know what you are using for an MUA, I employ 'claws-mail' myself when working in a non MS Windows environment. CM will display the HTML just fine without any additional effort on my part. I CAN configure it not to do so; however, that then is my choice and not the senders problem. In fact, it is never the senders problem. If they insist on sending mail in a format you are not happy with, blacklist them and move on. Life is too short for all this agita. As someone else stated, on a mailing list, the admin can configure it to send mail in whatever format they like. If the sender doesn't like the decision, they can walk away. Again, no need for an extended period of anxiety. -- Gerard
