On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 11:47 PM, Blaise Alleyne <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14-12-16 04:21 PM, Thomas Milne wrote: >> >> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014, 3:58 PM Loui Chang <[email protected] >> <mailto:[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@ <mailto:[email protected]>gtalug.org >> <mailto:[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. >> > > Thomas... you realize that both the emails you sent to the list on the > subject of not using HTML > email... were HTML emails... right? > > I'm not sure if that was intentional satire... :) > > (No, Gmail is not sending plain text email.) > >
OH HOW EMBARRASSING Anyway it's not GMail's fault it's mine. I've been using Inbox, the hip new thing from Google. I assumed since Lennart was not scolding me I was okay :-) -- Thomas Milne --- GTALUG Talk Mailing List - [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
