Re:Switching to the Mutt Email Client
by rtpg on Friday June 16, 2017 @05:20AM
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No one is questioning one's ability to look at an image attachment through an image viewer. I think you know this, which makes this sort of reply doubly frustrating.
Think about how word processors were a thing so early in personal computers, despite then actually being some of the most complicated bits of software one can build. What are e-mails if not documents?
Having some control over formatting (at least in the semantic sense, like HTML) is a core part of using computers for a huge part of the population. Yes, even the people using only their phone. People like bolding text.
A lot of people aren't good at it, but a lot of people aren't good at talking either.
Re:Switching to the Mutt Email Client
by simion314 on Friday June 16, 2017 @06:19AM
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My GUI client blocks images by default and I almost never need to have the images display because all images are from advertising(maybe for other people use case they get more images)
Think about how word processors were a thing so early in personal computers, despite then actually being some of the most complicated bits of software one can build. What are e-mails if not documents?
Having some control over formatting (at least in the semantic sense, like HTML) is a core part of using computers for a huge part of the population. Yes, even the people using only their phone. People like bolding text.
A lot of people aren't good at it, but a lot of people aren't good at talking either.