"Richard J. Sexton" wrote:
>
> At 04:26 PM 1/22/99 -0500, Dan Steinverg wrote:
> >"Richard J. Sexton" wrote:
> >> At 10:13 AM 1/22/99 +0800, Dave Crocker wrote:
> >>
> >> >If one takes the view that one must only send what everyone is assured of
> >> >being able to process, then we will never have any upgrades. No MIME. No
> >> >HTML. No non-ASCII character sets. Etc.
> >>
> >> Go post HTML to the IETF list and see what happens if
> >> you really believe this crock.
> >
> >I believe this, and I don't think I have to join another list to prove
> >it.
> >Richard, if you can't handle HTML and can't figure out a way around
> >it, I'll write you a filter (at my normal billing rate <g>).
> >
>
> Show me a mailing list where postng in only HTML is accepted and I'll believe you.
I'm on about 40 of them (about 300 messages/day on the aggregate).
Surprisingly, there are no dinosaurs on them. Seems like doctors,
lawyers, speedskaters, cross-country skiers, LAN managers, year-2000
practitioners, etc. have no trouble with HTML. I repeat my offer to
write you a filter.
>
> Find me even 1% of all interent mailing lists that you won't get yelled
> at for posting HTML *as well* and I'l believe you.
Define "yelled at". If it means Richard and one or two others
complain, I don't buy it. I'd set the bar at 25%. If 25% of a group
has a problem, that would be significant (maybe even 20%). Until you
can demonstrate that a significant number of listmembers are disturbed
by HTML or MIME attachements, I don't buy your argument. Are you
willing to annoy the listmembers with a survey just to prove my
point? Go ahead, ask them how many cannot support HTML in their
normal mail configuration?
>
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