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

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Ddavid@lang.hm <david@lang.hm>
Date
May 18, 2011, 23:14 UTC
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On Wed, 18 May 2011, ellis@spinics.net wrote:
>> The necessity to use the desktop in order to send a message to the
>> list is annoying and not quite contemporary.
>
> So the list should change just because your mail client is broken?

if the client is sending out multipart mail with both a HTML and a text portion, then having the list accept the text portion and strip the HTML portion off seems like a reasonable request.

I am very much a text e-mail person (I use pine almost exclusivly), but this doesn't seem that bad.

David Lang
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  3. David MillerMay 18, 2011
  4. Eugene SajineMay 18, 2011
  5. ellis@spinics.netMay 18, 2011
  6. Eugene SajineMay 18, 2011
  7. Eugene SajineMay 18, 2011
  8. david@lang.hmMay 18, 2011
  9. ellis@spinics.netMay 18, 2011
  10. Tim MazidMay 18, 2011
  11. Eugene SajineMay 19, 2011
  12. Junio C HamanoMay 19, 2011
  13. david@lang.hmMay 19, 2011
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  16. David BrownMay 19, 2011
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