RICHTEXT:
I can live with RichText as is, though I confess it can be a bit
annoying on a generic mail reader (xmail in my case). If however
changes to the specification are likely, I have a strong preference
for it being broken out into a separate RFC.
MNEMONIC:
On another note, I've done a quick survey of folks I know on EUnet
connected systems and am unable to find anyone outside Denmark who
uses Mnemonic or plans to. Most had never heard of it. The only
person I could find who does use it is someone who is connected to
Keld's system dkuug.dk. My sample space is significant and includes a
number of countries but is obviously not everyone in EUnet or every
site in Europe.
One EUnet-connected sysadmin I contacted has told me that his
understanding was that Mnemonic was an acceptable format but was not
preferred. He said that EUnet's official position remained that 8-bit
SMTP and ISO-8859-1 are the sole preferred mail mechanisms, but that
there were a number of others that were OK as interim measures.
At a minimum there appear to be some communication problems
(language barriers ?) within the EUnet community here, because this is
not consistent with what I heard Keld say on this list.
Ran
atkinson(_at_)itd(_dot_)nrl(_dot_)navy(_dot_)mil