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Many people still prefer plain text email. I certainly do.
by telemachos 16y ago
Many people still prefer plain text email. I certainly do.
- ryanjkirk 16y agoI prefer text email in theory. It's cleaner, simpler. Text for messages, that's how the web was meant to work, right? I also cringe when I purple text in Comic Sans, as well as other unmentionables. Yet, when I want to emphasize something, I hate using asterisks. It's not semantically correct, and it looks ugly. And how do you differentiate between underline and italics? For this reason I support HTML email.
- pilif 16y agoUsing asterisk for italics and underlines (_) for underlines is an age-old convention that predates the web and HTML email by years. I much prefer plaintext only mails. Not only are they readable on any device, I also don't have to be afraid of getting my machine infected by who-knows-what.
- pornel 16y agoplaintext e-mail supports format=flowed (RFC3676) which allows lines to be arbitrarily long.