On 2/5/01 7:43 AM, "John W. Baxter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2/4/01 23:22, "Dan Crevier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On 2/4/01 1:41 PM, "John W. Baxter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2/3/01 22:56, "Dan Crevier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Apple uses a different standard, text/enriched. Entourage can do a
>>>> reasonable job displaying text/enriched.
>>>
>>> Good grief...I haven't had to worry about text/enriched since
>>> a) I began ignoring Cyberdog (when Apple dropped future support for
>>> OpenDoc); and
>>> b) Eudora dropped text/enriched support.
>>>
>>> [It took a while before Cyberdog and Eudora spoke the same form of
>>> text/enriched.]
>>>
>>> There's no doubt still an RFC around for it, so Apple can claim to be
>>> following standards, but...it seems an odd choice in a world which has
>>> settled on the awful HTML mail as the format in which to annoy recipients.
>>
>> Maybe because it was leading rich email standard back with NextMail was
>> written.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>
> That makes sense from Apple's point of view, I guess.
>
> I do not look forward to increasing amounts of unreadable mail coming into
> Eudora after Mac OS X gets into people's hands. [And I don't plan to give
> up Eudora any time soon, and I have no hardware upon which to run Mac OS X.]
>
> I'll just have to go back to telling people to send me readable mail if they
> want me to read it, I guess (as I did with HTML mail and Claris Emailer).
I'm guessing that Eudora handles text/enriched fine.
Dan
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