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

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 03:01:10PM -0800, James J. Besemer wrote:
> "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.

I concur with the other guy who noted that trends needn't be
inexorable.

> 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.

If everyone seems to want to filter them out of mailing lists, perhaps
there's some moral in that.

I don't think, no, that HTML email is at all good.  MIME, yeah, no
problem; there are *standards* there.  There is *no* standardized way
to wrap an HTML email so that you can do anything intelligent with it,
which is inherent, I think, in the (lack of) design thereof.

Cheers,
-- jra
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