Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 02:43:46 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Chris Fedde" <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> Cc: "FreeBDS-Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Memory usage Message-ID: <009101c13d01$bff2b320$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <200109140502.f8E52uI27592@fedde.littleton.co.us>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Chris Fedde >Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 10:03 PM >To: Marco Radzinschi > >Such features and the compensations made for them erode the >universality of plain text to the point where it becomes useless >as a medium of information exchange and is replaced by a proprietary >format controlled by a single commercial organization for their own >ends and not for the public good. Both MIME and HTML are public standards. But, I also fail to see the need to make everybody on the Internet jettison their mail clients just because some jerk decided that it would be cool to send mail in Helvetica. I challenge anyone who think's HTML is needed to come up with an idea or concept that is able to be conveyed in HTMLized e-mail that is not able to be conveyed in ASCII. When you can do that then I might think that it's worth having. Simply putting in a feature for the sake of having it is what is called a solution looking for a problem. It solves nothing and contributes to code and network bloat, and application complexity, which usually comes at the expense of reliability. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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