Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 02:43:25 +1100 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: ruth moulton <ruth@muswell.demon.co.uk> Cc: Rick Hamell <hamellr@qcsn.com>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Email [was: Squid will that be fried ?] Message-ID: <19980327024325.13610@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199803261248.MAA02467@muswell.demon.co.uk>; from ruth moulton on Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 12:48:57PM %2B0000 References: <Marcel-1.42-0324172959-0b0Zsav@duffner.konstanz.netsurf.de> <Pine.WNT.3.95.980324102339.-21791C-100000@greymouser.circle-path.org> <199803250858.IAA01513@muswell.demon.co.uk> <19980326061948.63584@welearn.com.au> <199803261248.MAA02467@muswell.demon.co.uk>
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On Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 12:48:57PM +0000, ruth moulton wrote: > Sue , > > > Please, if you must use Netscape or any microsoft or other nonstandard email > > application, first ensure that: > > 1. You have thoroughly studied http://www.lemis.com/email.html > > 2. You understand what it says > > 3. Your email app (or whatever) is set up to comply, and > > 4. You know how to use it to ensure it complies > > > > Sue - what do you mean by a 'non standard' email application ? - An application which may do Internet email, but is largely concerned with other tasks, such as using proprietary methods to communicate preferentially with others of its kind, or has another form of communication as its primary purpose, eg web browsing or news reading. Thanks for the notes on the RFCs and their location. It's good to have this info handy. > So, the point of all this verbage is that is perfectly OK to > send attachments (What email.html says is don't send them > unnecessarily), as long as they conform to the MIME standards. Quite so. To send and receive email, one should, as an absolute minimum, conform to the standards. Much modern software doesn't do a very good job of that, or needs significant user intervention in order to make it do so. I'm pretty sure that the ability to receive MIME is optional. But that's not the only consideration. If our purpose is to communicate then let's do whatever will enhance that communication without stepping outside of the parameters set by the protocol, the established culture of the audience, the resources available and the purpose of the communication. Adhering to standards is only the minimum acceptable behaviour. I don't know to what extent email attachments are technically right or wrong, and whilever we welcome the diversity that makes up the Internet I don't care much. Consideration for others leads me to avoid them except between consenting adults in private. Now before some of you go running off feeling "spoken to", let me clear something up. I'm no better or worse than any of you, and nor are my opinions. The only difference between you lot and me is that I organised this mailing list and my penance is some unpaid work each day to keep it doing what you say you want it to do. I guess that makes me more stupid than anyone else here :-) So please, don't take what this outspoken newbie says as being the One Truth. While people can make sensible decisions for themselves nobody should have to tell them what to do. Suggestions more sensible than mine are always very welcome, even if it takes a little while to teach me that they're right. -- Regards, -*Sue*- find / -name "*.conf" |more To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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