Jamie Zawinski wrote:
Pete Resnick wrote:
Text/enriched is much more widely deployed [...] than HTML.
On what do you base this assertion? I'm afraid I don't believe it.
I agree 100% with jwz.
I am the moderator of the french newsgroups fr.emplois.*
hierarchy (job offers and requests) and receive about 25% of 500
articles per day sent directly from a SMTP MUA to my moderator's mailbox.
None of them, I repeat : none of them, used text/enriched in the last
three years. These articles come from all over the world.
25%*500*365*3 = 136875. And 0% of 136875 messages is not IMHO "widely
deployed"...
BTW, about 20% of 136875 are made of a multipart/mixed with a text/plain
and a text/html...
Furthermore, since 1992, the number of messages I got in my personal mailbox
using the text/richtext or text/enriched is less than 10 (ten).
In fact, Pete is right : text/enriched is widely deployed. But is
not widely used.
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