On 05/15/2018 02:34 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 01:47:50PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
TL;DR = Don't use HTML email [snip]
That's enough right there. HTML markup in email is used exclusively
by three kinds of people: (1) ignorant newbies who don't know any
better (2) ineducable morons who refuse to learn (3) spammers.
There are no exceptions.
Yes, there are exceptions. Particularly, chemists (and chemical
engineers) and physicists who need to embed formulas into their e-mail.
They use HTML because it's fast and easy, instead of using the preferred
method of building a PDF and sending that.
(I had a long, unfruitful argument with my brother the chem engineer at
the time my mail server rejected all incoming HTML mail. I had to change.)
Another exception is that most webmail is HTML and plaintext in MIME format.
I get around the problem of triggering code in Thunderbird by only using
the plain text view, dropping to "simplified HTML" view only when
necessary, and only when I know the sender.
