Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 10:22:10 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Mail formats (was: E-day problems: rtld-elf dlsym() broken?) Message-ID: <19980904102210.S606@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980902075404.6024M-100000@animaniacs.itribe.net>; from Jamie Bowden on Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 07:57:38AM -0400 References: <19980902160634.G606@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.SGI.3.96.980902075404.6024M-100000@animaniacs.itribe.net>
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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
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