Tim Gruene <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> [summer break flame]
> I'm sure there are a lot more computer admins than crystallographers who
> prefer high-tech over fancyness - aka outlook usually marking my signed(!)
> emails as spam ;-)
>
> And, yes, I know that both thunderbird/enigmail and kmail combine both very
> elegantly, but with mutt I can simply use an ssh-client to read my email from
> anywhere in the world without having to worry too much about security whereas
> I shall not configure some internet-cafe's email client with my credentials to
> read my mail in the absence of a private internet connection..
> [/summer break flame]
>
> Cheers, Tim
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 11:09:46AM +0200, Flip Hoedemaeker wrote:
>> Leave it to the crystallographers to be the last on the Planet with
>> text-only email readers.... Just before the ccp4bb will migrate to
>> google+ :)
>>
>> Flip
[...]
Well, I’d like to plonk my support behind good old plain text. I think
there are valid reasons for it which are nothing to do with Luddism. The
more formatting you put into your emails (unnecessarily, I would say),
the more you’re constraining how your emails should be read. Some people
might want or need to read your email in a much larger font than you
would use. There is a legitimate use for HTML email, in science you
might well want to illustrate your thoughts with graphs and chemical
diagrams, but HTML for everything as a default, I don’t like! Remember
Homer Simpson’s web page?
Of course purists would say the most universal email format is US-ASCII,
format=flowed…
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