Date:         Tue, 23 May 2000 16:29:48 -0700
Reply-To:     Ron 'Coyote' Lussier <coyote@MACROMEDIA.COM>
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From:         Ron 'Coyote' Lussier <coyote@MACROMEDIA.COM>
Subject:      Re: MIME Message! (non-vw related)
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> For those of us who believe that standards are necessary, the internet is
> was/is based
> on standards. Standards developed way before there was a company built
> on the concept that standards are meant to be broken; every day. They are
> available to anyone who wants to look them up and use them.
>
> Email is defined by the internet standard as text based, ascii
> only, files. It does not
> allow for HTML, or MIME, or any of the other variants so stupidly
> introduced by the behemoth for the purpose of locking people into
> its method of thinking.

Listen, bub.  I hate microsoft as much as the next guy, but what you're
saying is patently false.  There *are* standards for HTML-based email:

     http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2110.html
     http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2557.html

You can't state a need for standards and then claim that some standards
(ones where Microsoft was involved) are less valid than others.  RFCs are
the standard for the Internet, and have been since RFC 1
(http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1.html).

Coyote

P.S.  I've heard of Lynx, and I choose not to use it because I'm
      not a crusty old fart out to prove a point by viewing the
      web sans graphics, color, and all of the other enhancements
      that modern HTML brings.

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