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E-mails are plain text. "Rich text" has no business there.

jorangreef 16y ago
Feature suggestions for Gmail for increasing speed and ease of email: 1. Send subject-less email only. 2. Send plain-text email only.
- bruceboughton 16y ago
  Subject-less?
  - jorangreef 16y ago
    Yes, as in no subject line. Think: PostIt/SMS/Twitter.
IgorPartola 16y ago
I just wish that clients pike Gmail would drop the stupid truncation at 78 chars for plaintext emails.
- smackfu 16y ago
  From RFC5322, Internet Message Format: "Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding the CRLF."
tvon 16y ago
Luddite.
- _pi 16y ago
  Actually this a problem with most mail clients. They are terribly slow, even web based ones, for people who have multiple accounts, have a high email volume, and have to archive all their mail and have it easily accessible. Essentially the problem is most email clients suck, many terminal apps have been optimized for speed and thus many people with a ton of email use them, the culmination of all my mailboxes is about 22Gb of email! Outlook sucks at handling mailboxes over 5Gb same with most other clients, Gmail is ok at it but searching is a bit slow, and organization and control isn't that great. Gmail is also slow in usability compared to most clients like mutt or sup. Not only that but HTML emails INCREASE mailbox size dramatically! Especially HTML signatures, because they generally use several different sizes/faces of font, contain images and may introduce "email backgrounds". In many cases the HTML markup of an email may be LARGER than the content of the email.
- jorangreef 16y ago
  There's a difference between resisting progress and promoting simplicity.
  - tvon 16y ago
    Simplicity for whom? I agree that on high traffic lists email should be kept to plain text, but for your daily business/social use it's far simple to format an email with html or rich text than it is to rely on ascii decorations for text markup, footnotes or any kind of table/diagram.

Feature suggestions for Gmail for increasing speed and ease of email: 1. Send subject-less email only. 2. Send plain-text email only.

bruceboughton 16y ago
Subject-less?
- jorangreef 16y ago
  Yes, as in no subject line. Think: PostIt/SMS/Twitter.

IgorPartola 16y ago

I just wish that clients pike Gmail would drop the stupid truncation at 78 chars for plaintext emails.

smackfu 16y ago
From RFC5322, Internet Message Format: "Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding the CRLF."

tvon 16y ago

Luddite.

_pi 16y ago
Actually this a problem with most mail clients. They are terribly slow, even web based ones, for people who have multiple accounts, have a high email volume, and have to archive all their mail and have it easily accessible. Essentially the problem is most email clients suck, many terminal apps have been optimized for speed and thus many people with a ton of email use them, the culmination of all my mailboxes is about 22Gb of email! Outlook sucks at handling mailboxes over 5Gb same with most other clients, Gmail is ok at it but searching is a bit slow, and organization and control isn't that great. Gmail is also slow in usability compared to most clients like mutt or sup. Not only that but HTML emails INCREASE mailbox size dramatically! Especially HTML signatures, because they generally use several different sizes/faces of font, contain images and may introduce "email backgrounds". In many cases the HTML markup of an email may be LARGER than the content of the email.
jorangreef 16y ago
There's a difference between resisting progress and promoting simplicity.
- tvon 16y ago
  Simplicity for whom? I agree that on high traffic lists email should be kept to plain text, but for your daily business/social use it's far simple to format an email with html or rich text than it is to rely on ascii decorations for text markup, footnotes or any kind of table/diagram.