Why this phobia to HTML mail?

[Trevor Smith]

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

>Instead, standards bodies generally end
>up codifying the de facto standards that have already emerged out of
>actual usage.

??

What real examples are you basing this claim on?

TCP/IP? PGP? MIME? SMTP? POP3? IMAP?

>Any "standards" that eventually emerge regarding HTML email will merely
>reflect the predominant current state of affairs and will not cause a
>change in direction so drastic as to render current practices obsolete.

That may be true, but it's not the general example of the Internet.

I believe you have a severely distorted view of how the Internet was
built and continues to work.


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