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by swiftcoder 758 days ago
And exactly zero of the people who send marketing emails are going to adopt your plain text email replacement. In the year 2024 we ought to be able to format text and add images to our communications.

For the folks who really want to RETVRN to the days of plain text, command line mail clients are still a thing.

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My old marketing department would beg to differ. Plain text is easy, graphics and layout is hard. Further, all our emails were written in plain text first, then styled once we were 100% on the copy (so they could be sent off for translations in 20-odd languages).
> And exactly zero of the people who send marketing emails are going to adopt your plain text email replacement.

Great!