Re: Plain Text Mail (Was Re: I call bullshit)

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2013/4/28 Kevin Martin <kev82@khn.org.uk>:
>
>> Greg Lewin's email is coming through in both plain text and HTML. I'm
>> guessing your email client is defaulting to displaying the HTML?
>>
>> Sometimes it can be very difficult to force your mail program to send
>> plaintext only emails as everything nowadays is supposed to be all
>> singing/dancing and pretty. I have accidentally sent HTML emails quite
>> a few times.
>
> GMail's new reply format makes it quite tricky to avoid top-posting
> and to stick to plain text. Is there a way of influencing them so that
> at least an individual user can record preferences for those two?
>

Ask for a Labs feature here:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/gmail-labs-suggest-a-labs-feature

With some coordination I'm pretty sure we could get some attention.

/s/ Adam