On 2012-11-30, Mark H. Wood <mw...@iupui.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:14:25AM -0600, Jim Graham wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:45:01AM -0500, Peter Davis wrote:
>> > Bear in mind that this list, by it's very subject matter, self-selects
>> > for members who tend towards old school tools and technologies. Mutt
>> > users are obviously more likely to be strict about text-only,
>> > 72-column wrapped messages than users of, say, GMail.
>> 
>> Ok, I've seen this enough times now that I have to ask....  What is it
>> about having a .gmail e-mail address that implies lack of proper
>> formatting for e-mail?
>
> I don't think it was about sending mail through a .gmail address; it
> was about using the GMail web thingy to compose the mail being sent,
> wasn't it?

Even that's not usually too bad.  When I read messages in mutt that
were composed in the Gmail web UI, they're usually OK.  It's the
Google Groups Web UI for newsgroups and mailing lists that's an
unmitigated disaster

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