* IƱaki Ucar:
IMO, it would be easier for everybody if the mailing list could automatically strip out the HTML part. Some projects do this (e.g., R).
In many cases, the quoting in the text/html part is easier to read (it's clearer who wrote what) than in the text/plain part.
For example, Igor's message looks like this in HTML:
| Dear developers, | | Hello, Dominik ;) | | sorry for a slightly off-topic post, but I've noticed that a significant | number of posters is sending HTML e-mail to this list (not to mention
The first and last two lines of the snippet are quoted.
The corresponding text/plain version looks like this:
| > Dear developers, | > | | Hello, Dominik ;) | | sorry for a slightly off-topic post, but I've noticed that a significant | > number of posters is sending HTML e-mail to this list (not to mention
So the quoting has become corrupted. In this case, it is not much of a problem, but for inline replies it can be really confusing.
Thanks, Florian