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Re: message formatting [was Wheezy/XFCE/VNC}



On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 16:29 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > Averaged computer users very often replace the subject and body of a
> > message, IOW they only keep the address to write a new mail. They aren't
> > aware, that they keep some magic note that is hidden in a magical
> > header. I suspect that Gmail doesn't support it for good reasons.
> 
> They do so many other heavy handed things it would be easy if they
> stripped out the In-Reply-To and References headers if someone
> completely changed the subject to something different.  Still
> incorrect but at least less annoying.

That's a good idea for this kind of web-mailers + those web-mailers
should default to plain text.

Incorrect, but I agree, it's not a bad idea.

:)


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