- From: Jean-Claude Dufourd <jean-claude.dufourd@telecom-paristech.fr>
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 18:28:54 +0200
- To: public-webapps@w3.org
On 29/5/12 17:56 , Julian Reschke wrote: > On 2012-05-29 16:53, Glenn Maynard wrote: >> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com >> <mailto:art.barstow@nokia.com>> wrote: >> >> * Messages should be encoded usingplain text >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_text> >> >> >> No, messages should have a plaintext *version* (MIME alternative). It's >> common and useful to use HTML messages, especially when posting about >> actual spec text, where being able to use italics and bold is extremely >> useful. This is quite a relic; I havn't heard anyone make the "emails >> should only be in plain text" claim in a decade or so. > > Emails should only be in plain text. JCD: It would be easier for me to comply with this rule if I understood the rationale. My perception is that this rule is not relevant any more. Against this rule, I claim that the readability of replies in text-only threads is much worse, unless the replier spends ages paying attention to text formatting by hand which is not acceptable. At least, that was the case the last time I tried. Best regards JC -- JC Dufourd Directeur d'Etudes/Professor Groupe Multimedia/Multimedia Group Traitement du Signal et Images/Signal and Image Processing Telecom ParisTech, 37-39 rue Dareau, 75014 Paris, France Tel: +33145817733 - Mob: +33677843843 - Fax: +33145817144
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