It might be a better use of resources to explain how to safely send
and receive HTML mail. HTML mail allows for as much or as little
markup as we want; if there are security concerns we should fix those,
not perpetuate more plaintext formats.
Larry
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 13:45:48 -0800 (PST)
From: ned+ietf-822(_at_)mrochek(_dot_)com
Cc: randy(_at_)qualcomm(_dot_)com, ietf-822(_at_)imc(_dot_)org
> Randall Gellens <randy(_at_)qualcomm(_dot_)com> writes,
> > I don't see much benefit in having both f=f and f-x. If we're going
> > to introduce f=x, why keep f=f around?
> Please do not deprecate format=flowed or introduce a new format option.
> There will be no hope of convincing software authors to follow the
> standards if the standards keep changing.
I'm afraid I have to agree with this assessment. text/richtext.
text/enriched.
format=flowed. Time to stop.
Ned