Tanstaafl writes: > Ok... but again (how many times have I said this now??), > MIME and plain text digest versions will continue to work as they > currently do.
And how many times do I have to reply that that is not the point, I am discussing the design of the new feature? I'm drawing an analogy: The fact that users of these other implementations *like* their features suggests that maybe users of the new one would too. If people aren't going to use the new feature, it's a waste of time and energy to implement it. I personally would *not* find the HTML digest preferable to dealing with multiple messages in the design you're implicitly talking about, and I don't think I know anybody who would; they would likely prefer to handle it with threading or Google-style "conversations". If you know otherwise about the users you are representing, please say so. > > "Simple" HTML simply doesn't lend itself to "encapsulating" > > structured documents, except with devices like frames. > > All I mean by 'simple' is simple enough that most mail clients capable > of rendering HTML email won't have a problem with it, and the fact is, > most can render fairly complex HTML. My turn to *sigh*. I *know* what you mean. I am telling you that in my opinion it will require quite a bit of effort to write a program (or Mailman function) to create HTML that does the job for a wide enough selection of MUAs. So far, I think Mark agrees. I'm not going to work on it myself, because I don't think the benefit (to others)/cost (to me) ratio is anywhere near high enough. That's mostly because I see supporting this feature as an unending time sink for the next 5 years, because HTML is just not intended to be used for this purpose. _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
