[pmmail-list] hyper-text?

[Brian Morrison]

On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:46:35 -0700
"Tim Roberts" <timr@probo.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:33:07 -0700 (PDT), Dave Hathaway wrote:
> >
> >This kinda ignores the crux of the issue for me: should HTML mail be
> >supported in any form?  Not if it is easy, but should it be supported
> >at all?
> 
> Of course it should.  Your attitude is akin to asking whether the
> Opera browser should support tables.  HTML e-mail exists in vast
> quantities, and denying that fact won't make it go away.  You are
> perfectly welcome to dislike HTML e-mail, and you should certainly
> have the option to turn off its support, but an application like
> PMMail cannot afford to cater directly to the fringe user if it hopes
> to survive in the long term.


Please tell us the RFC number of the email standard that defines the
behaviour of html encoded mail.

-- 
Brian Morrison

bdm at fenrir dot org dot uk
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