Guillaume Laurent wrote:

> I used to hate HTML mail as well, until I realised that all these 
> silly typographic conventions we use for quoting, making words *stand 
> out*, etc... are just some dumbed down, inefficient markup. Might as 
> well use a more efficient, standard one.

Offtopic, but anyway: luckily, there's "Mime: multipart/alternatives": 
this mechanism, supported by most mailers, allow an email to contain 
both an HTML and a plaintext (and in theory, for example, a PDF for 
printing) version of the email. The receiver's mail client can choose 
which alternative to show.

I'm certainly not against HTML email, but I do think people should be 
encouraged to configure their mailers to also send the plaintext 
alternative (for example: I usually use thunderbird, in which I view 
HTML email in full glory, but sometimes I like to use mutt, which is 
when the plaintext alternatives come in handy).


Arnout


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