Why this phobia to HTML mail?

[Brian Morrison]

On Mon, 18 Sep 2000 11:11:50 -0400 (EDT), Ralph Cohen wrote:

>FYI, the internet has already been built and de facto standards have
>emerged out of the real practices of real people really using it on a
>regular basis.  There isn't a standards organization in the world that
>has the power to force several hundred million users to change the way
>they are using the internet.  Instead, standards bodies generally end
>up codifying the de facto standards that have already emerged out of
>actual usage.

However, there were email standards codified in RFCs before all of the
Micros~1 crap appeared. MS simply think that weight of numbers is all
that's needed to run roughshod over these RFCs. If everyone in the US
suddenly decided to drive on the left (the sensible way as certain of
us might say) there would be chaos. Email is just the same.

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Brian Morrison                                  bdm@fenrir.demon.co.uk
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