On 7/25/2001, 11:43:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 13:37:33 BST, Lloyd Wood said:
> > If it can't be described in text, it probably can't be implemented in
> > text as a computer program either.
> The point I was trying to make was that if we simply filter *ALL*
messages
> that aren't text/plain, we're sending a message that we've given up on
> multipart/signed messages as well.
On the contrary, i think it's quite acceptable for any mailing list
to have a policy of "text only" submission. MIME has its uses, but
it doesn't need to go everywhere email goes; that's just insane.
I would further note that MIME is horribly incompatible with RFC 1153
("Digest Message Format") which may be listed as an experiemental RFC
but the format is in very common use.
> Surely after almost a decade of MIME experience, we can do better than
just
> saying "Throw out all stuff that isn't text/plain".
i'm about this close to setting up "ietf-demimed", a demimed list that
would
be subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], on my server, so folks can just try it
out.
Richard
