Re: [Fsfe-uk] Administrivia: html duplicates

[Jon Grant]

Hi.

Paul Waring wrote on 26/01/08 11:26:
> On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 02:24:24AM +0000, Jon Grant wrote:
> > Outlook, Thunderbird and all the main web mail (MSN, GMail, Yahoo etc) 
> > compose in HTML format. TBH, perhaps we should just allow HTML mails? 
> > I've yet to get some badly formatted mess of an HTML email (that was not 
> > spam) in all my years.
>
> I get badly-formed HTML emails that are difficult to read (and even more
> difficult to reply to) in mutt. I can't think of many examples where
> plain text couldn't have been used instead, and I have no idea why
> Thunderbird defaults to HTML format by default. If someone sends HTML
> email to a list (as opposed to me personally), in all likelihood I won't
> bother to read it.

If "mutt" has issues that isn't really our fault. Is it not maintained 
any more? Things have moved on since the 90s, receipt of emails with an 
HTML part is common now. We're not reaching our to new users on this 
list while we accept only text email. (As much as I prefer it.. and 
Thunderbird converts to Text for me anyway!)

Cheers, Jon