On Sep 1, 2025, at 5:20 AM, Gert Doering <gert@space.net> wrote:

Hi,

On Mon, Sep 01, 2025 at 11:13:19AM +0200, Carsten Schiefner wrote:
On 01.09.2025 09:20, Gert Doering wrote:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 04:33:48PM +0200, Johan ter Beest wrote:
As I am working on emails lately, I will add this notification to my list.

Please undo the change that makes the "monthly status mails" now arrive
in HTML format. This is not adding useful information but makes it
more annoying for people that do not use a GUI mail client (because, you
know, efficiency).

how about:
/-> "Content-Type: text/plain"
"Content-Type: multipart/alternative"-|
\-> "Content-Type: text/html"
- would this scratch your itch?

No. This is, in practice, one of the worst things that happen - multipart
mails that have differing content in both bodies (and it happens quite
more often that one would assume).

If there is *benefit* in HTML, like "nice advertising with pictures and
tracking pixels and all that", go for it. If you want to send information,
go for plain text (only).

Emphasis on information:

Data intended as information, as in an email, should be

Human readable
Easily parsed by eye
Easily parsed by code

In the Monthly probe report, the tables of keys and values do not meet criterion 2 as the variable width font messes with the vertical alignment. Plain text and fixed field sizes could remedy that for both GUI and TextUI users.

James R Cutler - 🦉 No AI content james.cutler@consultant.com

Gert Doering
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