# HTML generation
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**Category:** ruby-talk\
**Created:** [17 September 2003 12:49 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/html-generation/8106 "2003-09-17T12:49:43Z")\
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**Author:**  [@Robert\_McGovern2](https://rubytalk.org/u/Robert_McGovern2)\
**Post date:** [17 September 2003 12:49 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/html-generation/8106/1 "2003-09-17T12:49:43Z")
> Well, sir. Have you ever tried reading HTML e-mails in Mutt (just one
> of
> severak MUA’s for Linux?) I guess not, otherwise you’d be just as
> angry as
> I am about people sending HTML e-mails.
_scratches head_ Thomas did my email appear as html? as certainly from
this end it looks like pure text.
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**Author:**  [@Thomas\_Adam2](https://rubytalk.org/u/Thomas_Adam2)\
**Post date:** [17 September 2003 12:52 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/html-generation/8106/2 "2003-09-17T12:52:19Z")
— Robert McGovern [robertm@spellmanhv.co.uk](mailto:robertm@spellmanhv.co.uk) wrote: \> \> Well, sir.
Have you ever tried reading HTML e-mails in Mutt (just one
> of
>
> > severak MUA’s for Linux?) I guess not, otherwise you’d be just as
> > angry as
> > I am about people sending HTML e-mails.
>
> _scratches head_ Thomas did my email appear as html? as certainly from
> this end it looks like pure text.
> tainly from
> this end it looks like pure text.
Oh, sorry, I didn’t mean to imply that your e-mails were NOT plain-text,
because they are. I was just outlining why HTML e-mails in general are an
annoyance.
– Thomas Adam
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