From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 3 17:53:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA00255 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 17:53:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA00220 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 17:53:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA07846; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 10:22:11 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA14140; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 10:22:10 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980904102210.S606@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 10:22:10 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Jamie Bowden Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Mail formats (was: E-day problems: rtld-elf dlsym() broken?) References: <19980902160634.G606@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Jamie Bowden on Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 07:57:38AM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday, 2 September 1998 at 7:57:38 -0400, Jamie Bowden wrote: > On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> It seems to me that we should agree on some base set of functionality >> that a reasonable mailer should support. Most reasonable mailers >> support MIME nowadays, but the level of support varies considerably >> (that's one of the reasons I moved from elm; when I tried pine, I >> didn't have any trouble with MIME, but I just didn't like some of the >> things it did). I'll toss in a couple of features for discussion: >> >> 1. MIME >> 2. base 64 >> 3. 8 bit code >> 4. html >> 5. PostScript >> 6. RTF (can anybody decipher it?) >> 7. images >> >> Any others? Any comments? > > You know, I really don't want people clogging my mailbox with images and > other assorted crap. HTTP and FTP make it really easy for someone to put > something where I can get to it, and mail me a pointer. Mail is 7 bit > ASCII. I can see good reason to move to one of the 8 bit standards for > support of foreign language character sets, but I really don't care to > read anything that comes as html, a word document, or some other screwed > up format. Fine, but being able to display the attachments has little to do with people clogging up your mailbox. Just because you can't read it doesn't mean it can't clog. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message