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Re: BOF: Format-Flowed and Non-Western Charsets

2002-03-20 18:43:27

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