On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 01:01:04PM -0800, Michael C. Berch wrote:
> 1) Mailing graphics, especially photos.
MIME does handle this nicely, yes.
> 2) Sending a Web page, with an annotation.
I'd say, "send the URL".
> Obviously either of these *can* be handled in other ways, but it is
> extremely convenient to use attachments to do this, and the vast
> majority of users have mail-reading programs that are compatible with
> this either inline or by piping the content to a browser.
Do they?
Please understand my precise meaning: I tend to agree with this claim.
But that's not evidence. What evidence can you produce in its support?
> Although I am also sort of
> wondering if the digest paradigm is also somewhat of a dinosaur at this point.
I have wondered the same thing, and have tried to figure out ways in
which the presentation of messages in digest format could be handled
on the mail client's side, so that mailing lists need only ship the
information out in one format, and so that users could tailor the
presentation of digests to a format of their own choosing.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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