At 6:54 PM +0000 6/22/2000, D C wrote:
>I recently was talking to somebody working on their own mail client,
>and they were planning on not including plain text support.
IMHO, that's a big mistake. even if they do text/html by default,
they ought to include a text/plain. Ther are all sorts of things that
don't cleanly handle not having a text part -- not just mailing
lists, but mailing to pagers, mailing to mail list daemons, mailing
to PDAs, mailing to...
And then there's AOL, who's mailer doesn't deal with html.
Really a bad idea.
> How many lists would filter their messages out?
Mine would currently bounce them. Shortly, mine will probably strip
to text/plain, but as soon as I can build a tool that strips certain
unapproved mime types, I'll accept full MIME with reasonable
limitations. But what I want to do is convince the mailman folks to
add a "plain text" option to subscriptions and internally strip mime
to text/plain for those that don't want it. If they don't include any
plain text, these users are going to be hosed, IMHO - the universe is
much larger than mailing to your friend's netscape 4 browser, and for
a lot of them, you need text, or a text/plain part.
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Chuq Von Rospach - Plaidworks Consulting (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
Apple Mail List Gnome (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar
and say 'Man, what are you doing here?'"
