I've learned to ask several questions when people propose doing something --
especially when, at least at first blush, it appears that the "something"
is gratuitous.
The first question is "What problem are you trying to solve?"
So I'll ask it here. What problem are you (those who would advocate
enabling HTML-formatting of email messages) trying to solve?
The second question is "Why is your solution the optimal one?"
And the third is "What problems will your solution create, and are they
(in the aggregate) worse than the problem you're trying to solve?"
I believe these are reasonable questions. If I seem intransigent
in viewpoint, it's because I've not yet heard satisfactory answers
to them. (Though it's true that many points have touched on them
peripherally, I don't believe they have been directly addresssed.)
And as to the public and private suggestions (accusations?) that I've
for some unspecified reason decided to stop pushing the envelope,
that notion couldn't possibly be more wrong. My bleeding-edge goals
simply differ from those of a lot of other people, so I *am* pushing --
hard -- just in a different direction from some others. I'd also suggest
that my personal agenda, or lack thereof, is not relevant to the discussion.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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