plaintext email?

Christopher Morrow morrowc.lists at gmail.com
Mon Jan 14 21:28:39 UTC 2019


On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 3:52 PM John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:

> In article <CAL9jLaYkVVoE3j5dohE+SDLkXYhX=
> FA0eO8zNihUtA1M9AcTLQ at mail.gmail.com> you write:
> >
> >Isn't the underlying assumption with non-plaintext that: "I know what will
> >work better for you than you do" ...
>
> No, it's that every MUA in the world has handled html mail for a decade
> and it's a waste of time to piss into the wind.
>

the breeze is so nice though.


> I send most of my mail as unformatted text, but my MUA (alpine)
> renders incoming HTML just fine.  Time to get over it and waste time
> arguing about something else pointless, like when to capitalize internet.
>
>
well we COULD argue about 'inline comment' or 'top posting' ...
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