Stroller ha scritto: > > On 22 Dec 2008, at 12:59, b.n. wrote: >> ... >>> I don't know what you mean by using the adjective "cold" in relation to >>> the communication error that your mailer posts HTML by default. You >>> should file an upstream bug about that with whomever supplies it. >> >> Why is posting HTML mail a bug? I don't like HTML mail and I try to >> avoid it as much as possible, but there is nothing intrinsically "wrong" >> in HTML mail. > > It's a bug because it annoys people. It only tends to annoy me when the > sender has set the text to a size which is unreadable or intrusive on my > monitor (a size which is undoubtedly perfect on the sender's 800x600 > monitor), but it appears to annoy other people more. That there's scope > for us to have this discussion demonstrates that it's simply better to > post plain-text to mailing lists. Mailers should default to plain text > unless the user explicitly chooses otherwise. >
Is your browser rendering everything as plain text? Do you think it is a bug for web servers to serve HTML? We, technically minded people, could find HTML annoying, but most of the world thinks formatting emails with fancy fonts and colors is nicer, or at least they don't care. So many email clients (OSS ones too) default to HTML. We -the plain text fans- are the weird ones. m.
