Re: HTML messages are obsolete, especially for mailing lists

["Michael Checca" <mchecca@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 20:12:33 -0400, Ralf Mardorf  
<ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:

> From: lee
> Was: Subject: Re: alternative to kaffeine?
> Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:29:46 +0200
> > html messages are obsolete
>
> Full ACK, with one exception, it can be helpful for code, to avoid a  
> wrap.
Pastebin is good for code longer than a few lines. It also has syntax  
highlighting :)
http://pastebin.com/
> It would be good if the list would filter HTML messages, since most of  
> the spam is HTML formatted.
Very true. Plus, spam messages are much funnier when formatted as text  
cause it looks much more obvious that it's spam.
Maybe automatically convert from HTML to text?

> HTML is very useless for emails. Windows user e.g. tend to send a J, the
> J should be an emoticon, since there's a Windows font that replaced the
> J with a :). They don't understand, what HTML is and what fonts are and
> especially there's a misunderstanding about the fonts people are willing
> to install.
Many people (and clients) send emails in HTML because it's the default and  
they don't know they can change it.
> I wonder about fonts for braille ;).
Maybe next release :)
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Michael Checca
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