On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 08:11:27PM -0000, bruce@perens.com wrote:

From: Darren Henderson <darren@jasper.somtel.com>

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Email is not the web the web is not email.

Mail is MIME is the web.

Well, after a fashion :-) MIME determined the data type, but I wouldn't argue similarities past that.

We are making a mistake by not making more use of MIME. People slap my hand for sending HTML-ized mail. I guess there is someone out there still paying for net service by the KB, but I wish that would be over.

Hardly, but it's mostly noise, rarely adds value, AND many people read mail in clients that don't necessarily handle HTML elegantly. For example, Mutt (which I use) has to spawn lynx to view it... oh now there's a useful thing so some knucklehead can use a BLINK tag on his email?

Even when I used something that did handle HTML correctly, I never got an HTML message that had any value added by the formatting, mostly it just made it more difficult to read and even harder to cut and past into another document, if it was some suggestion.

I have no problem with heavier use of MIME multi-part message structurs where they make sense... but HTML still isn't that wide-spread in mail clients...

ANYWAY, wasn't 'enriched-text' written JUST for this occasion? Or did I miss that whole thing entirely? :-)

Chris

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