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Stop Gatekeeping Email
- sbuk 7y agoGreat parody, but factual inaccuracies and the snarky undertones ruin the point.
- klez 7y agoFrankly it's not even a great parody. Sound more like > 2019 > Still using plaintext directly from /g/. As you noted it's at times inaccurate, uselessly snarky and it distorts logic to prove a point, like saying that since something is a standard it should be blindly accepted and you're a moron for not accepting that some clients can't send plain-text email (which is IMHO a problem with the client, not those asking for plain-text email). The point about 72-characters wide email, on the contrary, is spot-on. I mean, I would hope that a client can wrap text correctly, regardless of the actual line width. Alas, many terminal emulator still don't do this, which may be considered "UNIX philosophy" (that is, if you need your text wrapped, pipe it through a wrapper first) but to me it's just annoying.
- numlock86 7y agoRelated link [1] and discussion [2] [1]: https://useplaintext.email/ https://useplaintext.email/ [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20513987 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20513987
- OrderlyTiamat 7y agoA work of art. Good refutation and enjoyable to read.
- benoliver999 7y agoAn article called 'Stop Gatekeeping Email' has a header that reads 'USING NORMAL E-MAIL LIKE A NORMAL PERSON'. I'm sure the irony is not lost on the author, in fairness.