Re:Use Plaintext Email
by Kerrick on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @05:36PM
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There is a great irony in a webpage with a section entitled "Rich text isn't that great, anyway" using rich text to set said title apart from the surrounding text typographically. The rest of the page also makes significant use of hyperlinked text, text with background colors, and other useful communication aids that aren't possible with plaintext email.
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Re:Use Plaintext Email
by Almondsetat on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @05:48PM
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There is no irony because an email is not a webpage
It's not that ironic; it's a web page that contains far more information that one might expect in any but the largest of emails.
The web is where the eyeballs are and nobody's going to convince anyone of a new idea by wrapping whole-page content in a <pre> tag, no matter the idealological purity this would reveal. To reduce friction (already created by telling someone to potentially change email clients) with readers the author needs to speak the visual language of the medium.