HTML by default in KMail

[Pan Shi Zhu]

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Jonathan Riddell <jriddell at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> At Akademy I queried the current and past KMail maintainers about HTML
> by default in e-mails.  They seemed to agree that it was a bit old
> fashioned to be keeping it off and agreed it would be fine to turn it
> on by default (in Kubuntu and upstream).  It seems unfriendly to me to
> show a message with most e-mails that the programme is hiding
> something from the user.
>

There are plenty of reasons to show that HTML email is rude.

http://www1.american.edu/cas/econ/htmlmail.htm
http://www.birdhouse.org/etc/evilmail.html
http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil_still.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_e-mail

So if an email client use HTML email by default, it is encouraging a
rude approach when writing email.

Obviously, this is bad. Because new users will choose a bad style
writing an email.