On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 14:14:43 -0500 tneff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Don't blame the weaknesses of your selection of tools on the > ^^^^ >> material. > I speak as a list manager, not as an individual member. As a > member I am fully prepared to get & use any tool I need to deal > with stuff, but as a list manager I cannot presume that my members > will be in the same position. It's an application of one of the > other time-honored Net principles which appears headed to the > "grave of history" on the same hearse: be conservative in what you > send and liberal in what you accept. Ahh, but there no press gang forcing use of MIME digests, or 1153 digests for that matter. Users (given list admin permission -- eg for some lists I disable digests entirely and for others I disable 1153 digests) are free to choose the mail formats they prefer and which their choice of mail tools presents most usably to them. But none of that states that a particular technology or format is inherently bad because a particular choice of tool handles it badly. -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
