HTML not so evil (was Re: Eudora Replacement)

[clark_k at pannaway.com (Kevin D. Clark)]

Derek Martin writes:

> On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 10:37:17PM -0400, Brendan wrote:
>> On Wednesday 13 October 2004 19:37, Justin S. Peavey wrote:
>> > should I be forced to receive and store every multi-megabyte
>> > virus-ridden file that gets sent my way when a hyperlink to a location
>> > using real file transfer protocol will do just fine.
>> 
>> Because it doesn't exist on line? I mean, even I could answer that one...As 
>> lovely as ASCII is, sometimes a secretary has to attach a spreadsheet...
>> Not everyone exists in our little world with its white walls and nice rules.
>
> If the secretary's company has a website, there could easily be a
> means provided to make the spreadsheet available from it.

You use the word "easily" in a way that makes me think that you are
impractically idealistic.

MIME and attachements are useful.  If you want to delete mail that
contains attachments, that's your perogative.  But to propose that
people should generally publish content on websites and then just
email links to that content is ludicrous.

So, my brother wants to send me a picture of his new dog.  You're
telling me that he needs a website?  Give me a break.

--kevin
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