This is A Techno list, let's not embrace the new technology! In response to Kent's reasons
> 1. MIME-encoding makes the archives and digests unreadable and difficult to search. Really? How? Is this a bit of a broad statement? > 2. Some peple still use text-based e-mail programs. I would assume there are very few? There aren’t many email programs out there that only use Plain Text, > 3. We old school. Kent you may be OLD school, but that's hardly a reason to keep everyone in the category. Kent you may be the moderator, but is the decision yours to decide what the list should do? I mean no disrespect here.... G -----Original Message----- From: Greg Earle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 October 2007 13:32 To: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: (313) REMINDER: 313 list accepts only plain text messages On Oct 5, 2007, at 8:58 AM, "kent williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 313 list doesn't accept multipart-mime messages. That means you need > to select 'plain text' as the message type in your mail client. Not > only that, but you have to actually check the message format before > you hit send, because many clients seem to choose HTML or Rich Text > formats on their own, even if you've told them to use plain text. > > What's the rationale? > > 1. MIME-encoding makes the archives and digests unreadable and > difficult to search. > 2. Some people still use text-based e-mail programs. > 3. We old school. If we was truly "old school", I wouldn't see this in the Digests: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable (just look at all those "=20" quoted-printable spaces.) While I'm not sure this is necessarily the exact/only cause, quite a few Digests still continue to cause Apple's Mail.app heartburn. There were 13 of them in the latest Digest that I just got earlier this morning (and a few "8bit" as well). If we really want Plain Text, it's all about Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit baby! - Greg No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.14.6/1061 - Release Date: 10/10/2007 08:43 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.14.6/1061 - Release Date: 10/10/2007 08:43
