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email is slowly being fucked up by the abomination that's called html e-mail. An increasing number of services sends only crap in their non html versions of stu
by est31 6y ago
email is slowly being fucked up by the abomination that's called html e-mail. An increasing number of services sends only crap in their non html versions of stuff. Recently I had to enable thunderbird's feature to use stripped down html so that I could interact with some of those services.
- yread 6y agoI had to recently switch all my transactional email templates to HTML as plain text only wasn't enough to satisfy the finicky anti-spam gods.
- gen220 6y agoMy hope is that, depending on the service they're tendering, plaintext (or at least static) emails will become a legal requirement. What if you need to read a "dynamic" email a few years after it was sent, and the company rendering the dynamic components goes away? And those dynamic components are somehow essential to the content of the email? A receipt, for example. There's some precedent for this kind of regulation. For example, the government requires medicare advantage insurance carriers to send physical mail to insured members under many circumstances, regardless of the member's digital-accessibility constraints or lack thereof.