[MR] text vs HTML email

[Michael Houghton]

Howdy!

On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 09:57:11AM -0400, Phillip Jones wrote:
> So what you're saying is that because you prefer to utilize out-of-date
> technology that the rest of us should cripple our own communications in
> order to accomodate you? I must be misinterpreting your words; please
> elucidate.
> 
Not "out-of-date", "appropriate". Email is not web and vice versa. Web
browsers are (one hopes) optomized for viewing web pages; dedicated
email clients are optomized for viewing email. Email is, fundamentally,
a text application. Attachments are translated to a text format for
transmission.

Messages without a text/plain part are plainly not meant for me to read.
If the sender intended otherwise, they should have ensured that they
included one. At least one mailing list I subscribe to actively strips
non-text/plain parts from messages.

yours,
Herveus
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