On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Robert Dewar <de...@adacore.com> wrote: > On 11/24/2012 12:59 PM, Daniel Berlin wrote: >> >> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Robert Dewar <de...@adacore.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> 2) The fact that Android refuses to provide a non-HTML e-mail capability >>>> is ridiculous but does not seem to me to be a reason for us to change >>>> our policy. >>> >>> >>> >>> Surely there are altenrative email client for Android that have plain >>> text capability??? >>> >> >> Yes, we should expect users to change, instead of keeping up with users. > > > Well my experience with HTML-burdened mail is awful. From people who set > ludicrous font choices, to bad color choices, to inappropriate use of > multiple fonts, to inappropriate use of colors, it's a mess. > > I think it is perfectly reasonable to expect serious developers to > send text messages in text form. BTW, our experience at AdaCore, where > we get lots of email from lots of customers, users, hobbyists, and > students, sending email from all sorts > of programs, is that yes, occasionally they send us HTML burdened > email, but almost always when we ask them to adjust their mailers to > send text, they can do so without problems.
Hey - customers even send mails with only a pdf attachment that contains a scanned sheet of paper with hand-writing ... Richard.
