[Mailman-Developers] Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself...

[James J. Besemer]

"Jay R. Ashworth" wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:40:11AM -0800, James J. Besemer wrote:
> > While, OTOH I agree these more robust formats are the future, it's
> > insane to force them on users and not allow them to turn them off.
>
> As someone who reads half of my mail in Mutt in a vt screen, and the
> other half on my Minstral equipped Palm III, I disagree wildly with
> your characterisation of non-ASCII email as "more robust".
>
> 15 years of varied experience with email administration causes me to
> characterise such email as "more frangible".

Ok.  For argument's sake, strike "more robust".    ;o)

However you characterize them, don't you agree they "are the future" (which was
the main point of my sentence)?  For better or worse, I detect an inexorable
trend.

More importantly, it seems you would agree there should be a way to filter them
out in list managers, which was my position in starting this overall thread.

Regards

--jb

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