"Jay R. Ashworth" wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:40:11AM -0800, James J. Besemer wrote: > > While, OTOH I agree these more robust formats are the future, it's > > insane to force them on users and not allow them to turn them off. > > As someone who reads half of my mail in Mutt in a vt screen, and the > other half on my Minstral equipped Palm III, I disagree wildly with > your characterisation of non-ASCII email as "more robust". > > 15 years of varied experience with email administration causes me to > characterise such email as "more frangible". Ok. For argument's sake, strike "more robust". ;o) However you characterize them, don't you agree they "are the future" (which was the main point of my sentence)? For better or worse, I detect an inexorable trend. More importantly, it seems you would agree there should be a way to filter them out in list managers, which was my position in starting this overall thread. Regards --jb -- James J. Besemer 503-280-0838 voice http://cascade-sys.com 503-280-0375 fax mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
