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I'm grateful that there are both HTML and plain text sections in my daily notification emails, but every byte counts against my monthly email quotas. If I could choose to only receive plain text, I could subscribe to far more tags.

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    Monthly email quotas? I can recommend a few (thousands) email providers offering infinite quota, or at least one that is measured in giga-bytes. Oct 16, 2014 at 19:37
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    Changing my email provider doesn't improve StackExchange.
    – David Dean
    Oct 16, 2014 at 19:40
  • Well, this seems like it won't have much use. And to add an option would be to clutter the UI.
    – bjb568
    Oct 16, 2014 at 21:13
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    Call us old fashioned, but many of us don't want HTML in our email. A single checkbox isn't that much to ask.
    – David Dean
    Oct 17, 2014 at 1:19
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    @bjb568 One label and one checkbox is hardly "clutter," is it?
    – Doorknob
    Oct 17, 2014 at 11:45
  • @Doorknob "would you like us to send text? Markdown? Latex? HTML? What color would you like the text? Would you like advanced options to configure the text size? You can upload a CSS file or paste it in this textbox. Which version of CSS is this? Which parser should be used on it? Which version of HTML? Advanced options to change tag structure? Old version of email? Advanced options for what content to send? Compression? Image format?" There should be no options over too many.
    – bjb568
    Oct 17, 2014 at 14:28
  • @bjb568 By definition, plain text has NONE of that If we wanted colors, font sizes or any of your other ridiculous examples, we wouldn't want plain text.
    – David Dean
    Oct 17, 2014 at 16:24
  • @DavidDean They aren't related to plain text, who said they were? I'm just illustrating how choices can be useless.
    – bjb568
    Oct 17, 2014 at 18:16
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    @bj568 It seems odd to me to suggest that asking for a choice to get less data will result in an absurd number of other choices for more data.
    – David Dean
    Oct 17, 2014 at 22:35
  • As I said, having options can be harmful. I was using an irrelevant example to prove that point.
    – bjb568
    Oct 18, 2014 at 5:28
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    @bjb568 for the sake of argument, of course.
    – user259867
    Oct 18, 2014 at 5:34

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