> LM> You are missing the point. Useful standards happen because someone
> LM> builds a system that works and does something new without much regard
> LM> to the past, and *then* publishes the standard.
>
> HTML mail does nothing new, what as the world already has several defined
> and implemented MIME types that do the same thing, and do it better.
And before MIME, X.400 had perfectly fine typing too, but your opinion
and mine don't mean much compared to companies that are capable of
arranging to have 90% of the new computers purchased delivered with
their choice of software. The problem with any other MIME types
but plain text and html is that only a tiny subset of a mailing list
would have the correct tool to display them.
Besides, the issue here is more to take advantage of new capabilities
than to complain about them. I'd like to see mailing lists that
understand that I can get anything from an archive server at the
click of a mouse and I don't need it all stuffed in my mailbox.
Html is just fine for that.
Les Mikesell
les@mcs.com
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