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Re: plain text only policy prohibits the use of android based mobile devices

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David Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org>
Date
May 19, 2011, 17:27 UTC
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On Wed, May 18 2011, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> But I tend to consider that not allowing pure text messages is a gmail
> bug/misfeature and needs to be fixed not by allowing html cruft on the
> list, but by enabling poor gmail users to send pure text when they
> want to.

Doesn't clicking on "Plain text" work? There are several people on lkml (includng Linus, I believe) who use gmail.

There doesn't appear to be a way to make it the default, which is annoying, but it is possible.

David
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