[Python-ideas] A bit meta

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 7:27 AM, Random832 <random832 at fastmail.com> wrote:
> There's no singular 800lb gorilla pushing the trend towards HTML mail.
> There's the fact that real users want to be able to use font styles, inline
> images, and tables, and anyone who wanted that to be handled via something
> other than HTML (text/enriched or whatever) has completely dropped the ball.

Sure, nobody's pushing for PDF Emails or anything like that. But it's
not that hard to use a bit of casual text markup instead of actual
font styles; and honestly, the number of times tables/images/etc are
used well is utterly dwarfed by the number of times they're used
uselessly. Epitomizing the inanity of a lot of people's email usage is
one person I know who will reply-all to a long post, quoting the whole
thing, and top-posting a "Thanks!" with a signature attached. That's
the entire content of the post, but it has a whole lot of color and
formatting and stuff. If text-only emails lose us that kind of thing
at the cost of also losing us the occasional inline image, I'm okay
with that price.

ChrisA