> On 25 Apr 2016, at 13:39, Tim McNamara <tim...@bitstream.net> wrote:
> 
> On Apr 25, 2016, at 5:00 AM, Andrew Bernard <andrew.bern...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Greetings All,
>> 
>> In a recent post David Wright asks of  a user:
>> 
>> > Please configure your client to post a text equivalent of your HTML code.
>> 
>> He also asked me to do that.
> 
> The reality is that the world, given the ubiquity of broadband and graphical 
> interfaces, has moved on from plain text.  It is no longer the standard and 
> has not been for a decade or more- most Internet users have, I suspect, no 
> knowledge of this old standard any longer.  Expecting others to accommodate 
> what is now an out of date standard will simply continue to create issues.  
> It's like expecting web developers to accommodate lynx in creating Web pages- 
> probably not going to happen very often.  
> 
> One can choose to use text-only software but at this point we are responsible 
> for our own problems if we do.  The world has changed and left us behind.

Heavens above!

You’ll be wanting us to start top-posting next!

Michael


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