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Re: email client popularity [was Webmail is implementation, not Internet architecture (was Re: Change the mailing list protocol, not DMARC.)]

2014-06-16 20:39:38
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso(_at_)mit(_dot_)edu> wrote:

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 02:33:09PM -0700, Stephen Casner wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jun 2014, Brian E Carpenter wrote:

I believe I am in a tiny, tiny minority by running my email
client in 'plain text' mode unless I receive a message that is
incomprehensible without setting 'original html' mode.

I'm with you there.

Ditto.  But whenver these sorts of discussions come up, it's always
pointed out that engineers don't count when product managers are
making their decisions.  :-(

                        - Ted (who is using "mutt" and "offlineimap")


That behavior might be unusual but the default for Gmail is to not open
embedded images unless a particular sender has been whitelisted for that.

So not at all surprising that Webmail would rank lower on that mode of
measurement.
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