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Derek wrote: | > I don't send HTML mail because too many people send too much flame | > mail if I do. But I think they're wrong. Now that we have a suitable | > open standard, it's time for the world to move past plain text. HTML | > mail WITHOUT EXTERNAL CONTENT is where email should be going I avoid netscape and mozilla for email when I can because, although I try to find all the config settings to force plain-text email, they invariably have sent html in some cases anyway. They embarrassed me one too many times, and it's now gonna take a lot of convincing before I'll ever trust them again. By "convincing" I really mean that they'll have to have some way that I can see the email before they send it, in a way that can't possibly have html hidden behind it, e.g. in an xterm running $EDITOR. I don't see this happening in the immediate future. | That said, I'd like to see a standard declared with a very limited | subset of HTML which mail readers should handle, and have that become | the norm for e-mail transmission. It *IS* nice to be able to have | such things as /italics/, *bold*, and _underlined_ (etc.) text in an | e-mail, without having to resort to the somewhat visually unappealing | indicators that have become Usenet/Internet defacto standards for | indicating such things in ASCII text. I'd love to have a mailer with | all the features and flexibility of Mutt, that also handled such a | subset of HTML for both composition and display of e-mail. | | Then, of course, we'd need all the major vendors to support such a | limited HTML subset, which I suspect would be like pulling teeth... What would actually happen, of course, is that every vendor would happily announce that they were following the standard. But their software would be even better, since it would use an *extended* HTML subset. ;-) (The resulting HTML would be 90% tag and 10% text.)
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