Printed newspapers are a perfectly valid way to receive the news, but it may not make a lot of sense to insist that television stations delivery the nightly news in a print format, or that social media should print a morning and night edition to meet that shrinking market.
I would sympathize with the argument plain text is a better medium for accessibility reasons, but I think expecting senders to anticipate your choice of MUA is a voluntary self exclusion from modernity. Email is not now what it was 30 years ago when people looked at me funny for using a curses-based MUA instead of using the "mail" command, and it doesn't matter what I think it should be. I have been reading this list for a very long time and I am worried the more frequent participants may at times allow their very valid but perhaps idealistic principles blind them to fact providing a service to their users implies the users actually want the service they are offering. The world moved on, and individuals are well within their rights to choose not to follow along, but expecting everyone else to make the same choice might be a tad unrealistic. Happy holidays everyone, Im going back to lurking for a decade or so. ________________________________ From: mailop <mailop-boun...@mailop.org> on behalf of Ralph Seichter via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> Sent: Friday, December 27, 2024 10:17 PM To: mailop@mailop.org <mailop@mailop.org> Subject: Re: [mailop] [Admin] Re: This is ridiculous * Michael Denney via mailop: > I'm simply replying via my normal mail client. I didn't realize that > having HTML in my message would cause anyone problems. AFAIK everyone > these days has an HTML-Capable mail client, but maybe I was wrong. There are still loads of MUAs going strong which run inside terminal sessions. Think mutt, notmuch, pine, etc. Good software people see no reason to abandon. -Ralph _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
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