Re:Use plaintext email
by robenkleene on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @08:36AM
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I’m not sure what you’re saying here. Is it that you’ve never heard of the concept of quoting a passage of an email? Or are you saying “sure people do that, but it doesn’t matter if it’s easy”?
Or perhaps the parent commenter is part of the lost generation of email users that never properly used quoted replies in email conversations. And this is not necessarily an comment on the age of the parent commenter, but rather about what email programs were common at the time. I blame Outlook mainly for this, but Gmail hasn’t done much to help here either.
The use of quotes in replies is also part of the article and is definitely a better way to go with bottom replies than the current default of top replies.
He means that he’s never heard of it as a “supposed to be”, or rather, a core feature/reason to use email.
Which is my experience as well — it happens to be easy to quote.
The real quoting that email supports, the reply w/ embedded copy of replied email, is unaffected by html/plaintext choice.
Re:Use plaintext email
by thatguyagain on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @07:54AM
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Exactly.
Since when? I have never heard anyone say this in my entire life. I want emails to look good. So I guess people are different and we can't draw a simple conclusion about what people want from email?