At Thu, 25 Apr 2002 09:45:04 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Angus Lees"> > > don't punish those who do the right thing. > > (aka "don't optimize for the failure case") > > It's only a recommendation. [...] One can always choose to ignore > the recommendation.
but my point is that SLUG should be *encouraging* MIME and PGP. amongst other things, that means NOT recommending against their use.. > It's also a pity that we encourage the thoroughly unmodern approach > of "No HTML Mail", but there's a fair amount of agreement that it's > not wanted. where the HTML version adds value, and its a multipart/alternative with a plain text equivalent, i agree with you. the problem is, only a handful of post i've seen would benefit from HTML (posts with itemised lists (usually event announcements) or those with heavy use of URL links). -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
