My complainings on this website are linked on this page.
-Top posting on mailing lists. — Coming soon
+ -HTML on mailing lists. — Coming soon
+ diff --git a/Complaining.html.md b/Complaining.html.md index 604eb34..aac8d79 100644 --- a/Complaining.html.md +++ b/Complaining.html.md @@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ My complainings on this website are linked on this page. [Top posting on mailing lists.](http://mkaysi.github.com/top-posting.html) -HTML on mailing lists. — Coming soon +[HTML on mailing lists.](http://mkaysi.github.com/HTML.html) diff --git a/HTML.html b/HTML.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7cca53f --- /dev/null +++ b/HTML.html @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +Emails which are written with HTML are annoying.
+ +They look bad with some clients with plaintext inlines (at least on Icedove and Thunderbird).
They add empty lines to emails. Have you ever tried looking at source of one?
They can include very annoying formatting.
+ +Do you like reading email which is for example, all in bold, cursive and with some notice attracting colour, like red? +And what if it's even written with some very annoying font?
They don't show correctly in some emails clients.
At least guidelines of Debian mailing lists and Ubuntu mailing lists forbid writing emails in HTML. Hopefully others do to, at least they should.
Are you sure? Debian wiki has instructions how to write plain text with many clients.
+ +Are you sure? Debian wiki, which was mentioned eaerier also includes instructions for many webmails about writing in plaintext.
diff --git a/HTML.html.md b/HTML.html.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..952b57b --- /dev/null +++ b/HTML.html.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +Using HTML in emails. +===================== + +Emails which are written with HTML are annoying. + +Why are they annoying? +---------------------- + +1. They look bad with some clients with plaintext inlines (at least on [Icedove and Thunderbird](https://mozilla.org/thunderbird/)). + +2. They add empty lines to emails. Have you ever tried looking at source of one? + +3. They can include very annoying formatting. + + Do you like reading email which is for example, all in bold, cursive and with some notice attracting colour, like red? + And what if it's even written with some very annoying font? + +4. They don't show correctly in some emails clients. + +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. + +My email client cannot write messages in plaintext! +--------------------------------------------------- + +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. + +But I use webmail, I cannot send plaintext! +------------------------------------------- + +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. diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index 0417c97..b4195d8 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -4,6 +4,6 @@Why I don't use S/MIME?
-[My complainings about many things] — coming soon too.
+My complainings about many things
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diff --git a/index.html.md b/index.html.md index c71e7e0..e54ce80 100644 --- a/index.html.md +++ b/index.html.md @@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ You can find my [PGP key here.](http://mkaysi.github.com/PGP.txt) Why I don't use [S/MIME?](http://mkaysi.github.com/Clearsigning.html) -[My complainings about many things] — coming soon too. +[My complainings about many things](http://mkaysi.github.com/Complaining.html) Hosting by [GitHub pages.](http://pages.github.com/)