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> It sometimes needs to be told on a paragraph-by-paragraph basis, because otherwise it might also reflow ASCII art diagrams and such Yes exactly, there is no
by arp242 3y ago
> It sometimes needs to be told on a paragraph-by-paragraph basis, because otherwise it might also reflow ASCII art diagrams and such
Yes exactly, there is no "one right way" to do it because you never know if a newline is a "hard enter" or just a "reflow to the next line". Every default will break something.
This is why you need some (minimal) markup, no matter what you do text-only email is broken for some use cases.
- Athas 3y agoIt's a tradeoff. I'm willing to accept some clumsyness in return for conceptual and technical simplicity. Others may feel different. In practice, most people who write plain text emails manage to format them pleasingly themselves (and 72 column plain text is perfectly readable on my phone, although I prefer not reading email there).