[BUGS] Toy GUIs (was: format=flawed (was: Why is my mail being horribly newlined?))

[Jerahmy Pocott]

On 15/12/2007, at 1:14 PM, Andrew Reilly wrote:

> Hi Greg,
>
> Sorry for coming on a bit strong in that previous message.  I was
> mostly just yanking your chain, because I know (or believe that I
> know) most of your strongly-held opinions about mail and text.  I
> actually agree with most of them, but, perhaps because my daytime
> work is within a Microsoft-powered (encumbered?) business, perhaps
> because all of my extended family have e-mail, and most of them
> are non-techo Microsoft or Apple users who generally send HTML
> mail, I'm doing my best to adapt myself and my tools to suit.  I
> do a large chunk of my work in e-mail, so I am also passionate
> about it, and also somewhat unhappy about the state of the
> tools...

Almost anyone that mail to do with business uses Outlook of
some version or another..

Which means they always send HTML mail and I need a
mail app that will handle it. Incidentally the Apple Mail
program doesn't let you compose HTML mail, it insists
on RTF or Plain Text.

I don't really think HTML is a good e-mail format, if they
want to send me a web site, they should send a link, not
send me a website as e-mail..