Excerpts from direct: 4-Jun-91 Re: Richmail Ned Freed(_at_)hmcvax(_dot_)claremo
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I feel that Richmail is an extremely important facility to have and I don't
want to get rid of it for such non-reasons as these.
I'm not terribly interested in arguing the point, or even in pointing
out that I was thinking of appropriate <emphasis>subsets</emphasis> of
the admittedly larger and more complex document formats -- if I was
interested in that I'd be on a DL for discussion of a standard document
format for Internet mail messages. So:
- Richmail is a specific document format
- It deserves its own RFC
- It doesn't belong in an RFC that is trying to explain how to cope
with interchange of formatted mail (other than perhaps a pointer to its
RFC)
- If it's a good idea it doesn't need this kind of back-door
introduction
- Any proposed document format is controversial
Let's kick it loose and solve the specific problems of headers and their
meanings.
Bill