Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 23:47:04 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "Jack Velte" <jackv@earthling.net> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: html email Message-ID: <5886.897634024@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Jun 1998 15:38:50 PDT." <01bd9589$b487d1a0$1001aace@eliot.pacbell.net>
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> this is one of the biggest problems with FreeBSD. html mail is THE standard It's not a problem with FreeBSD at all, let alone one of its "biggest" problems - that statement only displays a fundamental ignorance as to how services are layered. It's possible to install any one of several HTML-capable mail readers for FreeBSD right now today out of the ports collection, Netscape being only one of the many possibilities. However, I also have no desire to switch mail readers since MH has been something I've used happily since 1984 or thereabouts and I see no reason to switch. I'd also need a lot more evidence than I've seen to date that HTML-ified mail represents any sort of forward progress. To me, it represents nothing more than a bunch of guys with a big HTML hammer wandering around thinking about how everything now looks like a nail. There's a time and place for anything, and I think HTML works just fine as a WWW interchange format, but leave it there and don't attempt to HTML-ify everything just because you can. For mail, ASCII is *just fine* and MIME attachments provide any of the multimedia extentions one might want, MIME having been around for a heck of a lot longer than HTML. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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