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Writing emails in text/gemini?

Aaron Janse aaron at ajanse.me

Sun May 17 11:01:18 BST 2020

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> I don't think this is a good idea.  No email client is going to
> recognise text/gemini (famous last words!) which means for most people
> (okay, I don't have hard data, but I'm *assuming* most people aren't
> reading the list on a mobile device) this will just result in a much
> reduced user experience.

Oh, I meant to suggest we, as a community, write text/gemini while markingit as text/plain. But yeah, apparently some email clients still don'tknow how to wrap text at a reasonable width? But last time I checked, thisis a flamewar topic.

~ Aaron