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You'll have to pry plaintext email from my cold, dead hands. If you send me an HTML email it goes right in the bin.
by Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago
You'll have to pry plaintext email from my cold, dead hands. If you send me an HTML email it goes right in the bin.
- skrebbel 9y agoI see this a lot on HN, but how does that work in practice? nearly all common graphical email clients compose in HTML mode by default. Most signatures that I see contain at least one clickable link. Do you just delete all emails from people who dare to use Gmail? Or Apple Mail? Or Outlook? Are they all horrible, horrible people not worth corresponding with?
- cesarb 9y agoAll common graphical email clients that I know of send a HTML message as a "multipart/alternative", with both a plain text and a HTML version. In fact, AFAIK an email having only a HTML version (or the plain text version being too different from the HTML version) is an indication that the email is probably spam. The text-only email clients just ignore the HTML version and show the plain text version of the email.
- skrebbel 9y agoAhh right, that makes more sense. So all the people who proudly boast that they send HTML emails straight to /dev/null actually mean "emails that don't come with a text version". Sounds less hardball when you put it put that :-)