From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 4 16:33:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA12267 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 16:33:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@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 QAA12261 for ; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 16:33:16 -0800 (PST) (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 KAA05802; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 10:59:09 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA06617; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 10:59:09 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981105105909.J784@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 10:59:09 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: rick hamell , Steve Friedrich Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: RFC 822 misconceptions References: <199811041856.NAA21656@laker.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from rick hamell on Wed, Nov 04, 1998 at 11:07:53AM -0800 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-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 4 November 1998 at 11:07:53 -0800, rick hamell wrote: > >> It appears to me that RFC822 does not preclude HTML formatting, or >> lines longer than 72 chars. I am not suggesting that we >> can't/shouldn't, by convention, use Greg's suggestions, just that he >> can't use RFC822 to back up his desire. > > It's called common curtesy. Greg's suggestions are based on > formating that all E-mail readers can read, AND still allow the recepient > to read the message. It's one more step in helping 'us' (the Unix > crowd,) keep Microsoft from taking over the Internet. If you wish to > receive HTML formated E-mail, feel free to do so. I for one get 1000+ > messages a day that I read through PINE on 6 different computers. Any and > all HTML formatted email messages get sent back with a nice header asking > them to remove all HTML crap out of it if they wish a reply. Remeber... > it's us against Microsoft... not us against us! Well, to be fair, it's more in favour of sensible, easy-to-read mail messages than against Microsoft. You'll notice (if you look *really* carefully :-) that I actually state that Microsoft has an advantage over UNIX mail readers in one area. It's not against Microsoft, it's against mediocrity. Unfortunately, at the moment it's difficult to see this distinction. 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-questions" in the body of the message