You seem to think that all formatting is pink, giant, and flashy. As has been pointed out many times, formatting isn't limited to bored secretaries. It has many legitimate uses and almost _every_ email client under the sun that has a user base worth discussing can (and does) send email formatted as HTML. To remain a good citizen in most environments you don't strip out the formatting when forwarding and replying, just because you're some kind of HTMLophobe.
I pointed this out off-list at one point but i don't think i ever brought it up here: RIM handles this incredibly well with Blackberries: when you reply to / forward a message, the message is immutable and attached to teh bottom. I can delete the entire thing, or I can live with the pain of it being there and being uneditable. HTML or any other rich text formatting, is preserved, my message goes (in plain text) at the top, and BIS/BES injects my signature on the line after where ever i stopped typing. For me, as a top poster anyway, that is about as close to perfection as you can get. In a full on email client, it would be quite easy to get the exact same behavior when replying to / forwarding text, AND make a user preference if they want to top or bottom post replies And as far as that eliminating inline replies: they result in clusterfucky conversations as can be demonstrated all over this list. -nick -- Nick Peelman [email protected] On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 2:34 PM, David A Dean <[email protected]> wrote: > On 29 Jan 2010, at 11:10 AM, Peelman Nick wrote: > >> The problem is stripping formatting and risking pissing the sender off... > > The sender has an unreasonable expectation if they think that everyone > can (or wants to) see their formatting. Especially when their own MUA sends a > plain text alternative. > > -David > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
