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I looked down and I am indeed wearing a plain grey t-shirt. I wouldn't tell people to not wear anything other than gray though. I wouldn't tell people to not ea

I looked down and I am indeed wearing a plain grey t-shirt. I wouldn't tell people to not wear anything other than gray though. I wouldn't tell people to not eat food and switch to soylent completely. I'm sorry if I appeared to push my viewpoint. That was not my intention. I apologize for my lack of communication skills. I was merely expressing a personal preference. I just wonder why documents that need rich text formatting can't be sent as an attachment instead.

pbhjpbhj 11y ago
Don't MUA handle sending both plaintext and HTML well enough? Thunderbird seems to cope with that at least. I think there is a tendency for minimalists to feel that others should conform to[wards] their ideal, whilst there are many aesthetics and there doesn't appear to be a logical reason to choose one above another [in the general case] - one man's cluttered is another's functional, or whatever. Way back in KDE3 days I was looking for a MUA to move to from Opera Mail and was auditioning KMail, the devs insisted that the display should not be allowed to handle sending HTML emails as a matter of principle. Since then it's been a bit of a touchy subject for me ...
yeukhon 11y ago
I don't know about you, but I write a lot of emails, and I write very long emails, usually to technical people, and believe or not, they don't read everything and they have TL;DR mentality (I don't, I read every word). I also deal with business users in my role, and rich text formatting improves reading when rich text is used appropriately. Compile PDF and upload is just another burden, and sometimes I forget to forward / reply with the attachment there. Wait I want to show table directly on my email (not ascii kind).. that can't be done if you are plaintext. I don't remember if Gmail's integration with Google Docs actually suppose to make links available during reply/forward...

pbhjpbhj 11y ago

Don't MUA handle sending both plaintext and HTML well enough? Thunderbird seems to cope with that at least. I think there is a tendency for minimalists to feel that others should conform to[wards] their ideal, whilst there are many aesthetics and there doesn't appear to be a logical reason to choose one above another [in the general case] - one man's cluttered is another's functional, or whatever. Way back in KDE3 days I was looking for a MUA to move to from Opera Mail and was auditioning KMail, the devs insisted that the display should not be allowed to handle sending HTML emails as a matter of principle. Since then it's been a bit of a touchy subject for me ...

yeukhon 11y ago

I don't know about you, but I write a lot of emails, and I write very long emails, usually to technical people, and believe or not, they don't read everything and they have TL;DR mentality (I don't, I read every word). I also deal with business users in my role, and rich text formatting improves reading when rich text is used appropriately. Compile PDF and upload is just another burden, and sometimes I forget to forward / reply with the attachment there. Wait I want to show table directly on my email (not ascii kind).. that can't be done if you are plaintext. I don't remember if Gmail's integration with Google Docs actually suppose to make links available during reply/forward...