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I'm more on team "Email Is Not HTML" than "Email Is Not SMS". The text information in email is whatever you want it to be. It's fine. But encoding that informat
by superkuh 4y ago
I'm more on team "Email Is Not HTML" than "Email Is Not SMS". The text information in email is whatever you want it to be. It's fine. But encoding that information as HTML really breaks the functionality of email and opens up all sorts of attack surface (and bugs) for very little gain.
- MereInterest 4y agoAgreed. The presence of nontrivial amounts of HTML is a strong sign that the email was sent by a spammer/marketer.
- giantrobot 4y agoI am fine with hyperlinks and useful inline images/attachments in e-mail. I don't like or want the "web page but over e-mail" but having rich text or hypertext can be very useful.
- mdavis6890 4y agoI personally like it when the text is presented as a gif. Especially a gif of cursive scrawl, containing a long URL.