Re: [mailop] [Admin] Re: This is ridiculous

2024-12-28 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop
Dnia 28.12.2024 o godz. 04:17:51 Ralph Seichter via mailop pisze: > * 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

Re: [mailop] [Admin] Re: This is ridiculous

2024-12-27 Thread Alain D D Williams via mailop
On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 04:17:51AM +0100, Ralph Seichter via mailop wrote: > * 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 cli

Re: [mailop] [Admin] Re: This is ridiculous

2024-12-27 Thread Ralph Seichter via mailop
* Vladimir Gabrielescu via mailop: > 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. I expect senders on mailing lists (!) to conform to e

Re: [mailop] [Admin] Re: This is ridiculous

2024-12-27 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu via mailop
Mmm. Curiously, it looks as though alpine now automatically reflows very long plain text lines, like the ones generated by this MUA (Apple Mail). So there’s that. Perhaps we need a new MIME content-type, “text/paragraphs”, to make it official? I advocate plain text, but since so many commercial

Re: [mailop] [Admin] Re: This is ridiculous

2024-12-27 Thread Vladimir Gabrielescu via mailop
to lurking for a decade or so. From: mailop on behalf of Ralph Seichter via mailop Sent: Friday, December 27, 2024 10:17 PM To: mailop@mailop.org Subject: Re: [mailop] [Admin] Re: This is ridiculous * Michael Denney via mailop: > I'm simply repl

Re: [mailop] [Admin] Re: This is ridiculous

2024-12-27 Thread Ralph Seichter via mailop
* 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 ins

Re: [mailop] [Admin] Re: This is ridiculous

2024-12-27 Thread John Levine via mailop
It appears that Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) via mailop said: >Michael Denney via mailop writes: > >> 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 clie

Re: [mailop] [Admin] Re: This is ridiculous

2024-12-27 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) via mailop
Michael Denney via mailop writes: > 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. My two MUAs are Alpine and MH. Blissfully HT

Re: [mailop] [Admin] Re: This is ridiculous

2024-12-27 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) via mailop
Michael Denney via mailop writes: > Of course there will be people that don't have HTML email, but in the = > last 10+ years I can't think of a single instance beyond today where me = > sending an HTML email instead of plain-text caused anyone any problems. The above paragraph is a perfect exampl

Re: [mailop] [Admin] Re: This is ridiculous

2024-12-27 Thread Michael Denney via mailop
Yes, my usage of 'everyone' was hyperbole or a generalization. Of course there will be people that don't have HTML email, but in the last 10+ years I can't think of a single instance beyond today where me sending an HTML email instead of plain-text caused anyone any problems. Then again - this

Re: [mailop] [Admin] Re: This is ridiculous

2024-12-27 Thread Slavko via mailop
On 27. decembra 2024 20:03:33 UTC, Michael Denney via mailop wrote: >AFAIK everyone these days has an HTML-Capable mail client, but maybe I was >wrong. Of course, HTML capable MUAs are common nowadays, but IMO the problem lies somewhere else. The everyone is "big" word, did you ask everyone? O