On 7/25/2001, 11:43:47 AM, Valdis(_dot_)Kletnieks(_at_)vt(_dot_)edu wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 13:37:33 BST, Lloyd Wood said:
If it can't be described in text, it probably can't be implemented in
text as a computer program either.
The point I was trying to make was that if we simply filter *ALL*
messages
that aren't text/plain, we're sending a message that we've given up on
multipart/signed messages as well.
On the contrary, i think it's quite acceptable for any mailing list
to have a policy of "text only" submission. MIME has its uses, but
it doesn't need to go everywhere email goes; that's just insane.
I would further note that MIME is horribly incompatible with RFC 1153
("Digest Message Format") which may be listed as an experiemental RFC
but the format is in very common use.
Surely after almost a decade of MIME experience, we can do better than
just
saying "Throw out all stuff that isn't text/plain".
i'm about this close to setting up "ietf-demimed", a demimed list that
would
be subscribed to ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org, on my server, so folks can just try
it
out.
Richard