Tracy R Reed wrote:
Stewart Stremler wrote:
Don't know, don't care; if it's not ASCII, it shouldn't be in email.
Usually I agree but: what if you don't speak english?
Speak English or die, commie! :)
The problem is that email is a (poorly-designed) old 7-bit technology
broken and adapted to 8-bit, extended via a hack called MIME, and
expected to work everywhere. There are no real fundamental standards and
it seems like the "standards" that are in place keep changing. Then you
have vendors (*AHEM*microsoft*AHEM*) who ignore all of this and do it
their own way. So it's a lose-lose situation no matter how you look at it.
Bottom line: we need a new standard for electronic mail, it's just that
the ones that have been proposed either a) suck b) nobody pays attention
to them c) both of the above d) really suck.
Intractable problem, anyone?
-kelsey
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