-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 04:25:59PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Who said anything about HTTP? I referred you to a thread on d-curiosa > where the travesty of HTML email was being discussed; the poster > seemed to feel as you do that email technology was somehow lagging > behind. It's not cool enough! Let's make it _cooler_.
Why drastically a technology from the lowest common denominator when it works so well? Example: Can openers. Electric ones tend to wear out every few years and don't work reliably in emergencies when access to nonperishable food is a critical need (HTML, lines greater than 80 columns, TMDA, etc fall into this catagory for email). > Do you think email headers should conform to rfc 2822, MTAs should > conform to rfc 2821, or ip datagrams should conform to rfc 791? Heck, > rfc 791 is _22_ years old! We'd better get rid of that old, pathetic > piece of crap! I wouldn't buy any ethernet equipment that conforms to > IEEE 802.3 either as that's at least 7.5 years old. Better throw out ISO-8859 as well. Those all came about in the mid-1980s. Time to ditch ISO-9660 CDROMs as well, after all we've been using the same standard for writing data CDROMs since 1988. - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+jWTKJ5vLSqVpK2kRAgnWAJ0WcyQr0FgVenMN8otjhlclgbwf9ACfbLEL TAaIYJe8oC6N5fb3Shg8iDg= =6adI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]