On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 12:12:34PM -0500, Christopher Morrow wrote:
Isn't the underlying assumption with non-plaintext that: "I know what will work better for you than you do"
I suspect that the increasing use of very long lines in the expectation that the recipient's mail client will wrap them "appropriately" leads to mail clients reformatting and wrapping lines in complete disregard for the formatting that the sender used. For example, the previous paragraph was sent consisting of four lines. If it didn't display that way for you, your mail client may have reformatted it. Had I wanted to use the formatting to convey some information, that would have been lost. A quote from many years ago that I feel is still relevant: "Good spelling, punctuation, and formatting are essentially the on-line equivalent of bathing." -- Elf Sternberg - Brian