Why this phobia to HTML mail?

Brian Morrison pmmail@rpglink.com
Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:42:58 +0100


On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:28:53 +0100 (BST), Simon Bowring wrote:

>A consequence of HTML email is that reliable interoperability *cannot* 
>be guaranteed, and email is too important to allow that to happen.

Very true, what we need is and updated RFCs that make it mandatory that
any gateway that sees inline non ascii in an email deletes the mail and
sends a rocket back to the author.

No surrender!

-- 
Brian Morrison                                  bdm@fenrir.demon.co.uk
              do you know how far this has gone?
               just how damaged have I become?
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