On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 11:05:06PM +1000, Tim wrote:
> > On 12 Apr 2014 at 12:47, Andrew Long wrote:
> > > Can I make a plea for 'plain text' to be the default format for the
> > > non-digest version of the list? Frankly my eyesight isn't what it
[snip]
> > I've goit my mailer set to default to the plain text version of
> > messages, but when a message doesn't have one (like one user's yahoo
> > posts on a list I run) I get the same problems.
> I third plain text being the default.  I've got a decent mail reader
> that can override HTML styles at home, but I frequently read mail over
> a ssh tunnel supporting text only.  If someone sends me HTML without a
> plain text section, I get to read HTML source and render it in my head.

I Nth plain text, too.

I have the same reasons as Tim, but I mostly just skip over HTML content
if I'm reading mail over the ssh tunnel (which is most of the time), so
HTML in a TML mail is a pretty sure way of making me not read it.

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Mikko Parviainen
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