--On Monday, June 16, 2014 19:55 -0400 Theodore Ts'o
<tytso@xxxxxxx> 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. :-(
To state that differently and perhaps more relevantly, many,
perhaps most, of the decisions about what to offer and support
are not made by product managers but by marketing product
designers who are more interested in whether something
demonstrates well and looks sexy than by, e.g., long-term
usability. 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.
john