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<p dir="auto">Good morning,</p>
<p dir="auto">On 24 Oct 2016, at 8:21, Bill Cole wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">On 23 Oct 2016, at 16:53, Charlie Garrison wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">On 22 Oct 2016, at 2:45, Bill Cole wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">This seems like an excessively complex alternative to the "Prefer plain text" checkbox in the Preferences->Viewer pane...</p>
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<p dir="auto">But doesn’t that apply to all mailboxes?</p>
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<p dir="auto">Yes. Which is how the FSM intended all email to be and to be read: plain text in the One True Encoding, US-ASCII. :)</p>
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<p dir="auto">I don’t need to be convinced. I didn’t even know what html email looked like until a few months ago. ;-)</p>
<p dir="auto">I have found it better to now accept html email rather than keep telling clients I missed their “inline comments in red” and so “didn’t see their request”. IOW, there is a subset of messages which is large enough that I want to keep default to show html. (I’ll forget to go hunting for possible comments with html highlighting). But there are some messages (like the mailing list) which are downright offensive as html. </p>
<p dir="auto">I agree that email should be plain-text, but I also believe that war is lost and the pragmatic approach is to switch to a client like MailMate. I still feel like I’ve got a plain-text MUA, but with modern concessions. </p>
<p dir="auto">I’m still going to wait to hear if Benny has any clever suggestions for per-mailbox view prefs.</p>
<p dir="auto">Thanks, <br>
Charlie</p>
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Garrison Computer Services <http://www.garrison.com.au>
PO Box 380
Tumbarumba NSW 2653 Australia
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<p dir="auto"><a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt" style="color:#3983C4">Conundrum</a></p>
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