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

2014-06-17 08:31:46
On Jun 17, 2014, at 9:26 AM, John C Klensin <john-ietf(_at_)jck(_dot_)com> 
wrote:
When criteria of those types are used, plain-text
email preferences will always lose, no matter how many of us (or
even non-engineers) prefer them for performance, security,
efficiency, or other reasons.

FWIW, non-flowing, non-indentable plain text is a royal PITA for me when I'm 
doing document reviews, so I have a lot of sympathy for those product managers. 
  The idea that indentation and flowable text can have security impacts is kind 
of sad.


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