Re: Administrivia: html duplicates

Paul Waring wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 02:24:24AM +0000, Jon Grant wrote:
>   
>> Outlook, Thunderbird and all the main web mail (MSN, GMail, Yahoo etc) 
>> compose in HTML format. TBH, perhaps we should just allow HTML mails? 
>> I've yet to get some badly formatted mess of an HTML email (that was not 
>> spam) in all my years.
>>     
>
> I get badly-formed HTML emails that are difficult to read (and even more
> difficult to reply to) in mutt. I can't think of many examples where
> plain text couldn't have been used instead, and I have no idea why
> Thunderbird defaults to HTML format by default. If someone sends HTML
> email to a list (as opposed to me personally), in all likelihood I won't
> bother to read it.
>   
Are these html-only emails or emails with an alternative text part that 
Mutt is having problems with?

Sam