Being Mr. Kenny

Why is it that Thunderbird can’t make up its mind about whether or not to send email in plain text or HTML? I would have thought that practically all email clients these days have absolutely no problem in displaying an email sent in HTML format. It seems extremely silly that it still asks you what to do.

In my opinion, it ought to just send all emails as HTML by default, and give you the option to change that setting in the preferences. Good software design is about making decisions on the behalf of your users, not presenting them with as many options as you can — especially not when they’re trying to do something! When I click send, I want the email to go away, I don’t want to have to choose what format it’s sent in. It’s not something I particularly care about anyway.