Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2020 14:10:38 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mailing List Etiquette was freebsd vs. netbsd Message-ID: <20200611141038.0a068ec2@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <CAEC7390kWRiSi5wO%2BpzcH_VZ-qSdLMPMvdD8bTNvr3Oc4Vw-XA@mail.gmail.com> References: <171506d5-19aa-359e-c21d-f07257c52ebd@freenetMail.de> <62d10000-e068-922e-23bd-f7a61e7a4e89@anatoli.ws> <ACE27C81-9437-41D6-BBD4-FA7A7B791428@kicp.uchicago.edu> <6a4f6a15-ec43-03f6-1a41-a109e445f026@anatoli.ws> <f667e8f9-b279-a3ce-3fc4-224ba17f4bbb@kicp.uchicago.edu> <00225a04-237d-9051-9aea-12c192106a20@anatoli.ws> <373EDB20-C750-42E2-A41B-EA61F6E49807@kicp.uchicago.edu> <20200609120136.00005b3c@seibercom.net> <2393a1e0-b073-950a-78be-9f57d8e9934b@anatoli.ws> <e1f6623a-3b3c-a43e-446a-d41f20f69418@kicp.uchicago.edu> <20200610063555.00003707@seibercom.net> <82F57D0D-E0EC-49F7-824E-20A296C9F549@kicp.uchicago.edu> <250b853a-b436-0e99-b05c-9abd6b6019ef@panix.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.2006101345220.97143@fledge.watson.org> <20200610163245.00000445@seibercom.net> <CAEC7392ZrvTfPqMRsRZhwpswbncSS=vPh%2B%2Bn=MX4nfsA_%2BDy-g@mail.gmail.com> <2ec5927b-26c6-e691-0081-ca72d2c84179@boxsci.com> <CAEC7390kWRiSi5wO%2BpzcH_VZ-qSdLMPMvdD8bTNvr3Oc4Vw-XA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 19:11:07 -0700 Donald Wilde wrote: > GMail appears to accept MIME, and I can see embedded MIME tables, > etc., but the non-text stuff doesn't survive the reply-quoting process > very well. You are confusing MIME with HTML. Without MIME, email is just ASCII headers, an ASCII text body and a few kludges. What the article is mainly referring to is MIME sections and encodings. If a client doesn't support sections you may see things like: ----11F4010BD64A7DDD4A964F0B Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable in the body. Plain text with a Content-Transfer-Encoding that hasn't been decoded can be harder to read or unreadable. Any modern client really should be able to read MIME, it's been around for nearly 30 years. Using a client that doesn't support it is just an affection these days. HTML is something that can be encapsulated in MIME. It's a very different matter. > Actually, given that the output of the quoting process is very usable > indented plain text, I think Google did a very good job considering > that GMail is a free service from a commercial, for-profit company. You can use gmail with a separate email client if you like. The servers support pop/imap/smtp.
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