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That's still a stupid reason. There is a MIME type for emails, so you can attach emails to emails, retaining their identity as emails, so the receiving MUA can
by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 9y ago
That's still a stupid reason.
There is a MIME type for emails, so you can attach emails to emails, retaining their identity as emails, so the receiving MUA can display the emails you receive as an attachment just like any other emails, including the user interface for replying to them, or whatever.
Also, there is threading information in email headers. So, it is actually trivial to just gather together all the emails belonging to a specific conversation and attaching them all to an email to a third party that needs the history.
Using this bottom full quote nonsense is about as sensible as attaching a screen shot of a word document or something.
- _acme 9y agoWhile arguably it's Gmail's fault, there are email clients, such as Gmail, that do not behave well with, or perhaps support at all, emails as attachments. When emailing people who use Gmail (as personal email or as the host of their work email), sending emails as attachments just doesn't work well.
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 9y agoWell, yeah, sure, there is terrible software out there. But if you expect everyone you communicate with to live with terrible usability because you insist on using broken software, then you are just being an asshole. Email is an open, federated system, you can just switch to different client software.
- _acme 9y agoThere are many organizations that use Gmail to host their email but do not allow third party email clients (i.e., IMAP and POP are turned off).
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 9y agoAnd those organizations could change that, right?