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<h1>Using HTML in emails.</h1>
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<p>Emails which are written with HTML are annoying.</p>
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<h2>Why are they annoying?</h2>
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<li><p>They look bad with some clients with plaintext inlines (at least on <a href="https://mozilla.org/thunderbird/">Icedove and Thunderbird</a>).</p></li>
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<li><p>They add empty lines to emails. Have you ever tried looking at source of one?</p></li>
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<li><p>They can include very annoying formatting.</p>
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<p>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?</p></li>
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<li><p>They don't show correctly in some emails clients.</p></li>
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<li><p>At least guidelines of <a href="http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct">Debian mailing lists</a> and <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists">Ubuntu mailing lists</a> forbid writing emails in HTML. Hopefully others do to, at least they should.</p></li>
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</ol>
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<h2>My email client cannot write messages in plaintext!</h2>
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<p>Are you sure? <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMailingLists#HowTo_send_plain_text_emails_to_the_list">Debian wiki</a> has instructions how to write plain text with many clients.</p>
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<h2>But I use webmail, I cannot send plaintext!</h2>
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<p>Are you sure? <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMailingLists#HowTo_send_plain_text_emails_to_the_list">Debian wiki, which was mentioned eaerier</a> also includes instructions for many webmails about writing in plaintext.</p>
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