What's with the raw HTML?

From: Dan Stephans II <adept_at_mcs.com>
Date: Sun Mar 15 10:09:59 1998

Umm, HTML is pretty much a standard no matter what platform you are on as it
is most certainly not platform dependent. The standard for 1.1 is specified
in RFC 2068 and for 1.0 in RFC 1945. If you mean that there are not standard
tools to read html'ized mail under unix/linux, I say Netscape is available
for almost any linux and most other unices running on sparc/intel/alpha
hardware. I don't argue that HTML rich text is fine for mailing lists,
however if you are going to argue that it is not you should formulate a
proper argument.

Cheers,

  Dan

Allison J Parent wrote:

> <Text. If the e-mail that you wish to respond to's in plain text, that's
> <what it'll send. The problem is that if M$ supports it, the WHOLE WORLD
> <suddenly has to all have HTML-ized e-mail readers. It's nice if you hav
> <it, but a pain in the A** if you don't.
>
> There is the little matter of some several million (or more) unix(linux,
> and related cuzins) systems out there where HTML is far from a standard.
> For me and many of the hybrid users HTML means slow, slower and special
> utilities to handle it and for what? What a waste of bandwidth.
>
> Allison
Received on Sun Mar 15 1998 - 10:09:59 GMT