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by jpecar 779 days ago
Soooooo happy that my mail client is not even on the list here. It automatically strips out anything remotely looking like html and it sends out plain text emails only, as email was designed to be and should still be.

Anyone sending me css garbage will be directed to /dev/null. Thanks.

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Reminds me of someone I knew 15 years ago, who often said "Anyone sending me text messages with abbreviations doesn't deserve a response". Sadly, now this guy has hardly any friends.
Text messages with abbreviations come from real people. Emails with HTML and CSS are almost all automated, and usually some kind of spam.

(Some email clients for humans probably add a bit of html and css to everything, but you get what I mean. It still looks like plain text)

Have you ever come across the insanely rare use case of wanting to put something in italic or bold?

Or even more insane, maybe wanting to add a link in an email?

Or, you ever purchase anything online? It’s kind of nice to have line items in receipts and an image of the thing I bought. But then again, I’m an irrational human who enjoys things like “aesthetic readability.”

As a true purist, do you also exclusively program in Machine code? Because that’s how all software was originally designed to be.

Seems silly to get religious about it.