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Re: email client popularity [was Webmail is implementation, not Internet architecture (was Re: Change the mailing list protocol, not DMARC.)]

Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Mon, 16 June 2014 23:55 UTC

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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Stephen Casner <casner@acm.org>
Subject: Re: email client popularity [was Webmail is implementation, not Internet architecture (was Re: Change the mailing list protocol, not DMARC.)]
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On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 02:33:09PM -0700, Stephen Casner wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2014, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> 
> > I believe I am in a tiny, tiny minority by running my email
> > client in 'plain text' mode unless I receive a message that is
> > incomprehensible without setting 'original html' mode.
> 
> I'm with you there.

Ditto.  But whenver these sorts of discussions come up, it's always
pointed out that engineers don't count when product managers are
making their decisions.  :-(

			- Ted (who is using "mutt" and "offlineimap")

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