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Re:Don't write just in plain text (longevity vs. authenticity) by alanbernstein on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @08:07AM (#30526883)
As the pro-plain-text post said: HTML, Markdown, JSON, LaTeX, and many other standard formats, are just plain text.
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Re:Don't write just in plain text (longevity vs. authenticity) by ciphol on Thursday March 03, 2022 @04:03AM (#30538800)
It depends. XML is generally not human-readable, it's got way too much programming code in relation to the amount of human content. But a simple subset of HTML is definitely human-readable.
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Re:Don't write just in plain text (longevity vs. authenticity) by mro_name on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @09:32AM (#30527706)
No, not when it comes to what reading person they target.

Here text/plain is the only that works for e.g. my mother.

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