Hello all, Hope all is having a good day/night. I've noticed several emails on the mailing lists are using html. Is there prehaps a suggestion in the mailing list "rules" for using plain-text, so that everyone may be able to read the emails? If not, may we add it as a recommendation for partcipating in the mailing list to use plain-text (if your email client/provider allows it)? It sucks I can't read a few of the mails since I use a terminal/plain-text only email client. Thank you, Jordan
On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 at 04:31, Jordan <jordan at crowesnest.io> wrote: > > Hello all, > > Hope all is having a good day/night. I've noticed several emails on the > mailing lists are using html. Is there prehaps a suggestion in the > mailing list "rules" for using plain-text, so that everyone may be able > to read the emails? Guilty as charged :) Rules or not, I'll try to remember to switch to plain text mode in gmail when writing to this ML. And don't be afraid to remind me again :) For anyone else using gmail and having a hard time finding this option: in compose mode there's a three-dot menu button in the lower right corner. That's where it's found.
On Wed Nov 4, 2020 at 2:59 AM EST, Bj?rn W?rmedal wrote: > For anyone else using gmail and having a hard time finding this > option: in compose mode there's a three-dot menu button in the lower > right corner. That's where it's found. For others also wanting to use plaintext email, here is a website which has instructions on setting up plaintext in various email clients and web UIs, as well as an explanation of why plaintext is preferred by many: https://useplaintext.email/ -- Jake Bauer (~jbauer) Web: https://www.paritybit.ca Gem: gemini://paritybit.ca PGP: 8A55 347B 2845 6BA7 0E43 B864 C3EB 9CAF 610B B4FB ASCII ribbon campaign ? against HTML e-mail http://www.asciiribbon.org | https://useplaintext.email
https://useplaintext.email may be helpful.
On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 10:31 PM Jordan <jordan at crowesnest.io> wrote: > Hope all is having a good day/night. I've noticed several emails on the > mailing lists are using html. Is there prehaps a suggestion in the > mailing list "rules" for using plain-text, so that everyone may be able > to read the emails? > After almost three decades of preaching and practicing the "plain text only, no more than 80 columns, no top-posting EVAR" gospel of email, I have concluded that it is now obsolete. 1) A sender that can *only* send text/html should definitely be off limits still. But one that sends the message in both text/html and text/plain (in a multipart/alternative wrapper) is legitimate. If the receiver's client cannot cope with multipart/alternative and pull the text/plain version out of it, the receiver really does need a new client at this point. For example, if I send a Gmail email (which has both formats) to myself at a different account and read it with Mutt, I see the plain text properly. 2) If the receiver's window to read mail is less than 80 columns, then the mail will look something like this, which is very difficult to read, especially when there is a lot of it. 3) Top-posting is still controversial, but I'll do it if I am making a completely general and short reply, like "Can you give me more details?" John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org "Hacking is the true football." --F.W. Campbell (1863) in response to a successful attempt to ban shin-kicking from soccer. Today, it's biting. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/attachments/20201104/1cdb 7dcd/attachment.htm>
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