I prefer text/plain myself, it gets rid of all the annoying marketing
images and silly fonts people like to use. It also proves a point that
modern day marketing of nice long mail signatures with company branding
on them can be pointless when milters and antispam services remove most
of them anyway.
It also reduces messages sizes as well.
On 20/03/2020 14:02, @lbutlr wrote:
On 19 Mar 2020, at 00:16, Philip Paeps <phi...@trouble.is> wrote:
On 2020-03-18 09:51:45 (+0800), Wesley Peng wrote:
Following this guide:
https://useplaintext.email/
Shall we use plaintext message in regular email communication?
You should use what the content of the message needs modulo your recipients'
wishes.
I personally prefer to receive plain text but I don't mind receiving
conservatively marked up HTML email (e.g. emphasis, hyperlinks, tables, ...
even embedded images if the message requires them). Others may (will) have
other preferences.
The problem with the position is that many people feel their messages RECQUIRE
their colorful signature, large corporate logo, and 14 line of meaningless
“This message is private communication… blah blah”
(I use to post those emails to sites like pastern and send the person the link,
but now I just delete them unread)
In my experience, plain text suffices for the vast majority of mailing list
discussions.
And in the very few cases where an image is required it is better to link to
the image.
Once you allow any image or HTML it becomes impossible to limit it to only the
necessary formatting.
Trying to force people to limit themselves to plain text is not a productive
use of anyone's time.
That’s why the best solution is for the mailing list to simply strip all
attachments and also reject messages that do not have text/plain parts. This
takes no time and no one needs to waste time or be bothered about it and
there’s also no one to complain to since it’s all automated.
The people who really can’t deal without having their pink text handwriting
font on a lime green background with an animated gif attached will either adapt
or go away.
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