On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 10:51:05PM +0100, Noah Slater wrote: > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 03:37:32PM -0600, lee wrote: > > > To the best of my knowledge, it isn't defined anywhere. But that doesn't > > > matter. > > > The common understanding of an attachment is that it is a file, with a > > > filename, > > > that has been sent as a separate item from the message. > > > > Well, then most people have a wrong understanding. > > This is an absurdly prescriptivist statement.
I'm not sure what "prescriptivist" means. See Message-ID: <20090718204148.ga8...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, there's an explanation why I could maintain saying that. > As in, if you did a survey of all the people on the planet, and > asked them if they had ever saved the HTML component of a simple > email message, I am willing to bet the number would be under 1%. A simple email message doesn't have any HTML components. You probably wouldn't get any valid results from such a survey because the percentage of people who wouldn't know what you're talking about would be too high.
