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Using HTML in emails.
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Emails which are written with HTML are annoying.
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Why are they annoying?
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1. They look bad with some clients with plaintext inlines (at least on [Icedove and Thunderbird](https://mozilla.org/thunderbird/)).
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2. They add empty lines to emails. Have you ever tried looking at source of one?
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3. They can include very annoying formatting.
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Do you like reading email which is for example, all in bold, cursive and with some notice attracting colour, like red?
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And what if it's even written with some very annoying font?
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4. They don't show correctly in some emails clients.
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5. At least guidelines of [Debian mailing lists](http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct) and [Ubuntu mailing lists](http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists) forbid writing emails in HTML. Hopefully others do to, at least they should.
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My email client cannot write messages in plaintext!
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Are you sure? [Debian wiki](https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMailingLists#HowTo_send_plain_text_emails_to_the_list) has instructions how to write plain text with many clients.
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But I use webmail, I cannot send plaintext!
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Are you sure? [Debian wiki, which was mentioned eaerier](https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMailingLists#HowTo_send_plain_text_emails_to_the_list) also includes instructions for many webmails about writing in plaintext.
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