html is evil (was Re: Ignore this- it's just a Test Message

[Andrew Sullivan]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 09:09:19AM +0200, Tom Coetser wrote:
> My apologies for going way off topic here...

Indeed.  But . . .

> 
> On Saturday 08 October 2011 11:38:35 Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote:

> problems will agree with. The fact that people would want to format and 
> highlight their emails, I'm sure many people will also agree with. So the 
> proper solution would probably be a special type of email markup to let people 
> make their emails look pretty *without* the pitfalls of HTML. But, definitely 
> not a simple solution.

. . .not only is there a simple solution, but one that's been
delivered ages ago.  MIME Multipart was defined in 1996 with RFC 2046.
Just about every modern mailer has the ability to send such mails.  If
you have adjusted your mailer _not_ to send plain text versions of
your mail along with the HTML version (if you want to use that), then
you are actually foiling this capability that you already have.

Best regards,

A

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