On 29/5/12 17:56 , Julian Reschke wrote:
On 2012-05-29 16:53, Glenn Maynard wrote:
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Arthur Barstow <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
* Messages should be encoded usingplain text
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_text>
No, messages should have a plaintext *version* (MIME alternative). It's
common and useful to use HTML messages, especially when posting about
actual spec text, where being able to use italics and bold is extremely
useful. This is quite a relic; I havn't heard anyone make the "emails
should only be in plain text" claim in a decade or so.
Emails should only be in plain text.
JCD: It would be easier for me to comply with this rule if I understood
the rationale.
My perception is that this rule is not relevant any more.
Against this rule, I claim that the readability of replies in text-only
threads is much worse, unless the replier spends ages paying attention
to text formatting by hand which is not acceptable. At least, that was
the case the last time I tried.
Best regards
JC
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