On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 02:46:10AM -0700, xxxxxx@shadowgard.com wrote:
> On 12 Apr 2014 at 12:47, Andrew Long wrote:
>
> > Can I make a plea for 'plain text' to be the default format for the
> > non-digest version of the list? Frankly my eyesight isn't what it
> > used to be, and some of the HTML-formatted posts that have been
> > coming out are so small-print that they might as well be saying
> > 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet'
>
> I've goit my mailer set to default to the plain text version of
> messages, but when a message doesn't have one (like one user's yahoo
> posts on a list I run) I get the same problems.

I third plain text being the default.  I've got a decent mail reader
that can override HTML styles at home, but I frequently read mail over
a ssh tunnel supporting text only.  If someone sends me HTML without a
plain text section, I get to read HTML source and render it in my head.

- Tim