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Re: plaintext email?
From: "John Levine" <johnl () iecc com>
Date: 14 Jan 2019 15:52:18 -0500
In article <CAL9jLaYkVVoE3j5dohE+SDLkXYhX=FA0eO8zNihUtA1M9AcTLQ () mail gmail com> you write:
Isn't the underlying assumption with non-plaintext that: "I know what will work better for you than you do" ...
No, it's that every MUA in the world has handled html mail for a decade and it's a waste of time to piss into the wind. I send most of my mail as unformatted text, but my MUA (alpine) renders incoming HTML just fine. Time to get over it and waste time arguing about something else pointless, like when to capitalize internet. R's, John
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