On 2 Sep 2025 18:03, Claudio DeSouza via Boost wrote:
On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM Andrey Semashev via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
On 2 Sep 2025 15:50, Vinnie Falco via Boost wrote:
On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 5:40 AM kazwo--- via Boost <boost@lists.boost.org
wrote:
For what should one need "rich" text in technical discussions? IMHO the content is that what matters, not the typography. And, obviously numbered lists are possible in plain text. ;)
Maybe all the Boost documentation should be in plain text? Its the content that matters...
Maybe all the websites you visit should be in plain text? Its the content that matters...
Online communication e.g. on a mailing list is not documentation or a website. ML is also not a social network or a chat. I'm sure you understand.
Nearly every other mailing list I participate in uses html rather than plain text.
My experience is the opposite. In fact, I don't think I participated in a single list where HTML was preferred.
What is wrong with conversation looking like this? https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/cxx/c/00OXAm1pqv8
Notice that the commenters following the first post did not bother to put their replies inline. That hints at the problem - because the rich text formatting of the original message is a pain to work with for the responders. You either have to put in the effort to manually make the quoted parts look decent in the reply, or you give up and top-post, often without any context of what part you're replying to. BTW, top-posting is discouraged on this list. Please, avoid it in the future.