David Artman writes:
>On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Joshua Kronengold <mneme@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> Mailman does allow HTML mail -- but it can be set up to not do so.
>O RLY?
Y. RLY.
>Please, sir, may we have modern email? If we all PROMISE not to abuse it?
Hey, I have no power here.
The issue with HTML mail is twofold:
1. REALLY old email clients don't work well with it. I use a pretty
old email client (vm, in emacs) but it's been under active
development, so it autoconverts html email into text.
2. Really badly formed email -- spam, truly egrigious top posting,
etc--tends to be html email. Mostly, there just isn't a good
reason to use html for email; most of the useful stuff in email is
text, and the rest can trivially be linkage.
That said, I don't really care; feel free to try to convince whoever
does have power to let html in. I won't -see- it, mind, as I get my
html email (on lists, anyways) via a lynx turning it to text.
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