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<div>I've used gmail on my phone for years with this list! It's never been an issue </div>
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On May 22, 2018, at 1:25 PM, Pete Hartman <<a href="mailto:pete.hartman@gmail.com">pete.hartman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 12:13 PM, john slee <span dir="ltr">
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<div dir="auto">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</div>
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<div dir="auto">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?</div>
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<div dir="auto">FWIW almost all of my interactions with this list are on my iPhone in the Gmail app, killing time on public transport or similar.</div>
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<div dir="auto">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...
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<div>On Tue, 22 May 2018 at 15:55, Tom Wiltshire <<a href="mailto:tom@electricdruid.net" target="_blank">tom@electricdruid.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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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.<br>
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> On 22 May 2018, at 12:29, Scott Gravenhorst <<a href="mailto:music.maker@gte.net" target="_blank">music.maker@gte.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I agree with Neil, several posts have arrived that are so horribly jumbled they<br>
> aren't readable so I just delete them. This forum has always been text based and<br>
> by far, the vast majority of information is simple text. HTML doesn't enhance<br>
> content, only the way it "looks" in some insignificant way. There are rarely ever<br>
> embedded binaries and even if there were, we have access to free posting web sites<br>
> if we don't have a site of our own - so any binary stuff can be put on a web page<br>
> and a URL posted in the text email. I really don't understand why HTML is<br>
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> Neil Johnson <<a href="mailto:neil.johnson71@gmail.com" target="_blank">neil.johnson71@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Can we please go back to the plaintext emails? The current formating<br>
>> is just terrible with indents and footnotes and all that visual<br>
>> clutter.<br>
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>> Thanks,<br>
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