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Re:Is Self Hosted Blogging Dead? by tehbeard on Friday January 22, 2016 @08:22AM (#10952518)
> Email clients already have the text editor users want, why rebuild the wheel?

I wouldn't put too much faith in email clients html output being sane, or consistent across clients.

You could do it with markdown, but then you're still having to teach them markdown.

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Re:Is Self Hosted Blogging Dead? by verusfossa on Friday January 22, 2016 @06:54PM (#10956377)
That's true, and you're right. Just a shot in the dark. Maybe someday one of the trendier email clients will support markdown rendering natively in their editors.
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