[sdiy] Mail formats

Tom Wiltshire tom at electricdruid.net
Tue May 22 17:54:46 CEST 2018


Another +1 for plaintext only from me. The list is fine just text. Occasionally it’d be nice to be able to send an image directly rather than having to faff about uploading it and link to it, but it’s not worth all the other stuff that goes with it.

> On 22 May 2018, at 12:29, Scott Gravenhorst <music.maker at gte.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> I agree with Neil, several posts have arrived that are so horribly jumbled they
> aren't readable so I just delete them.  This forum has always been text based and
> by far, the vast majority of information is simple text.  HTML doesn't enhance
> content, only the way it "looks" in some insignificant way.  There are rarely ever
> embedded binaries and even if there were, we have access to free posting web sites
> if we don't have a site of our own - so any binary stuff can be put on a web page
> and a URL posted in the text email.  I really don't understand why HTML is
> necessary at all.
> 
> 
> Neil Johnson <neil.johnson71 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Can we please go back to the plaintext emails?  The current formating
>> is just terrible with indents and footnotes and all that visual
>> clutter.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Neil
>> -- 
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> 
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