On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 08:33:09 -0400, Phil Smith III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"Veilleux, Jon L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, re RFC 2646: >>Is there any chance of getting this in clear English? Easy to follow >>examples, etc? There are several examples in RFC 3676. >Unless you're about to implement an email client, this RFC isn't relevant to >you -- it's largely focused on formatting stuff so other mail clients can display >it correctly. That part is true >Not something an end-user can just magically (or even manually) make >happen. Well, not exactly, but many mailers can be set up to quote text in conformance with the RFC. And it's not that difficult to correct the quoting where necessary so that it maintains conformance with the RFC, with the correct number of quote marks on each line when your mailer splits a line. And inserting the signature separator is trivial. >(And even if you could, you couldn't force the other n recipients of your >post to use a client that would unwind it correctly...) A significant point of the RFC is that it looks like plain text because it *is* plain text. Any mailer that can handle plain text should have no problems at all, at least in English. I can't speak to the adequacy of the specifications for other languages. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
