James Knott wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > >>> Well, yes. Dotan's original message spoke of losing formatting, which would >>> only be relevant if you were sending HTML. Plain text, by definition, has no >>> formatting. >>> >>> >>> >> I _strongly_ disagree that plain text cannot have *any* formatting. In >> fact, there are some *very* popular plain text markup languages >> available, such as Markdown. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown >> >> >> > How is this different from HTML or XML? You still have to add tags for > this to work and if included in a plain text email, those tags will be > visible. As an example, I've included below some HTML source from > Groklaw. As you can see, it's all plain text, with tags added. Doesn't > Markdown do similar, so that if read in a plain text email, the tags > will be visible? I don't think I'd care to receive a plain text email > containing Markdown tags, any more that I'd care to receive one > containing HTML or XML tags. > > <br> > > > Lots of activity in <a href="http:// > www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=Psystar">Apple v. Psystar</a>, > including Apple's filing its <a href="http://www.groklaw.net/ >
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