[TIP] plain text versus html mail

Chris Withers chris at simplistix.co.uk
Fri Apr 22 00:32:36 PDT 2016


On 22/04/2016 03:04, Ben Finney wrote:
> Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> writes:
>
>> [no text body]
>
> When posting to mailing lists, please be sure to have a plain text body
> with the full information. Not everyone wants to enable HTML in email
> just to read a software announcement :-)

I used to have this view, but I'm afraid the world has moved on. I think 
plain text messages are more likely to be treated as spam than HTML now, 
and I appreciate the ability to format mails, even if Thunderbird does 
then butcher that formatting during delivery.

I dunno, what's the consensus?

Chris



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