Re: MIME/HTML mail, was Re: SSH tunneling / X forwarding

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel@verizon.net)
Date: 03/30/03

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    From: Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@verizon.net>
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 07:03:02 GMT

    mdk-bill wrote:
    > Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
    >
    >
    >>>I find it very useful to be able to send multiple, arbitrary data types
    >>>in
    >>>email in a standard, structured fashion. Similarly, I see no reason why
    >>>in a world filled with graphic displays supporting multiple fonts,
    >>>styles, colors, etc, we should be restricted to expressing ourselves
    >>>using the equivalent of a (very old) typewriter.
    >>
    >
    > Possibly one of the best of all reasons is that many individuals and
    > companies filter html out of their newsgroup (and e-mail) traffic. That
    > means that your message hits the bit-bucket unread and you are, in fact,
    > not 'expressing yourself'at all, whereas, had you simply mastered the world
    > of simple speech and ASCII text,you could have communicated volumes.
    >
    > To tell the truth, there is nothing I wish from a newsgroup that cannot be
    > well-expressed in words by a literate writer.
    >

    That was me quoting someone else, I believe Richard Silverman. Dude, I'm
    very heavily against using binary content as a de-facto email or Usenet
    standard, for many reasons I've already listed.

    Mind you, there are binary newsgroups that I like to see the pictures
    in: those need MIME.

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