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>Have you have used Outlook (the most popular e-mail client in the world)? Popular != good. Outlook is awful. >How do you support attachments in text? You do
by Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago
>Have you have used Outlook (the most popular e-mail client in the world)?
Popular != good. Outlook is awful.
>How do you support attachments in text?
You don't. This is a benefit.
>Do you assume every "link" is a link?
Sure?
>Do you modify your own system for adding attachments and referencing them in the body?
No, you don't do this at all.
Plain
fucking
text.
- katastic 9y ago>Outlook is awful. Yes. And any system that wants to REMOVE the incumbent, has to replace it with superior features. I mean, what are you actually trying to argue for here? You literally just used Markdown to add emphasis to your post. Are you going to use a less expressive communication format for your important business e-mails... when you clearly use Markdown for internet comments with complete strangers? I know HN is full of startups but I can't be the only person who actually interacts with clients on a daily basis.
- Sir_Cmpwn 9y agoJust because Markdown is appropriate here doesn't mean it's appropriate for emails. Comments on internet threads are fundamentally different from emails. If I wanted to emphasize in email I might use a very small subset of markdown's syntax (i.e. asterisks) but only as a coincidence - you know markdown is based on common plaintext email patterns, right?