[sdiy] Mail formats

[john slee]

As long as I can still post from the Gmail mobile app & Gmail web UI
without going to stupid lengths that I don’t need for _any other mailing
list, even the most greybeard-y lists_, I’m happy

Turning it into some elitist “you can only use a mail client created prior
to 1995 because harrumph” group is ridiculously anti-user and unnecessary.
Is that your goal, plaintext email  fanpeople?

FWIW almost all of my interactions with this list are on my iPhone in the
Gmail app, killing time on public transport or similar.

CERT NZ — an org solely focused on information security/digital privacy
topics — did some user research recently and found that users generally
trust plaintext emails notably less than rich text emails. If I can get a
writeup of it I’ll share... as a web link, not an attachment :p

John



On Tue, 22 May 2018 at 15:55, Tom Wiltshire <tom at electricdruid.net> wrote:

> 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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