[R] Allow HTML email on R-Help

[Patrick Connolly]

On Tue, 03-Jan-2012 at 09:00PM -0600, Aren Cambre wrote:

|> Is it possible to allow HTML email on R-Help?
|> 
|> HTML email is mainstream and would really help with code markup and
|> embedded graphics.

On the contrary, unless special care is taken (rarely happens), HTML
email almost invariably shows code in a proportional font which is
more difficult to read than plain text.  Forum web pages which do the
sort of thing you like are clumsy to use IMHO.

If you want a graphic to help explain a question or answer, it's not
very difficult to attach a PNG file.  On the odd occasion where some
more elaborate combination of text, graphics and code is required, you
can make it into a PDF file for the convenience of readers (though I
can't think right now of an occasion where that was necessary).

In my experience, the best way to read list mail is a simple text
based email client such as mutt.  Point-and-click email clients deal
with threads poorly if at all, and are tedious by comparison.


|> Just a thought. It's frustrating dealing with the low usability of
   plain text.

In my case, it's refreshing to use a list that omits HTML.  Long may
it continue.


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