At 17:44 27/03/98 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>>> "SM" == Sam Michel <sam@webmedia.com> writes:
>
>SM> Rather, I'm saying it's best to prepare for the popularisation of
>SM> HTML-enabled email. Right now, there doesn't seem to be any mailing
>SM> list package that gets close to handling this kind of thing, at least
>SM> as far as I know.
>
>A mailing list package is supposed to deal with messages. It doesn't care
>what's in them. What special things is a MLM supposed to do with HTML,
>besides support throwing it out?
Intelligently handle HTML so that plain/text users just receive plain/text
email rather than the goobledegook that often arrives when it's MIME
encoded. This isn't a gripe, or a criticism of Majordomo or any current
MLM, it came from my thoughts about where email is heading.
>Majordomo handles HTML messages just fine, except that the digest format it
>uses is incompatible with MIME. There's a patch floating around that fixes
>it.
Apologies if this is in the archives or you've already mentioned this, but
could you point me in the direction of this patch. Thanks.
Toodle Pip
Sam
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