On Tue 16 Dec 2014 21:21 +0000, Thomas Milne wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2014, 3:58 PM Loui Chang <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue 16 Dec 2014 14:39 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > 2) We would have to help people configure their email clients to send > > > plain text emails. > > > > Rather that, than unusable emails. > > > > > If your solution to #2 is they can just Google it, you could also > > > Google how to read HTML email in your email client. > > > > It can't. At least not in a way that I can reply to cleanly in plain > > text. > > > > So unless people don't expect replies to their email, they better not > > send them in html in the first place. So you may as well just block > > them and let the user know why it was blocked. > > Get a better mail client or configure it properly. I only check my email > in a terminal and don't really have problems reading or replying to HTML > mail. > > Yes, I do prefer text, but realize there are a lot of mailing lists that > only send HTML and clients/devices that make it difficult for the user > to write plain text mail. > > It's much easier to configure your client properly than to get everyone > to stop using HTML email (which will never happen). > > --- > GTALUG Talk Mailing List - talk@ <[email protected]>gtalug.org > <[email protected]> > http:// <http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk>gtalug.org > <http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk>/mailman/ > <http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk>listinfo > <http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk>/talk > <http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk> > > > Well if you apply such all or nothing thinking, you can dismiss almost any > standard or rule. Why bother if not everyone will obey? Of course not > everyone will obey every rule but they are still useful and this one is > very reasonable to ask.
Well, because there will always be people doing stupid things like sending html mails, not quoting replies properly, not stripping footers/signatures, and such. You do you best to help educate people but don't cut them off lock-stock-and-barrel unless they show a real sign of stubborn ignorance. Then there's the fact that I have better things to do than to educate the world. Fighting the grave injustices of html email is just not that important to me. I have other priorities in life. --- GTALUG Talk Mailing List - [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
