[49806] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Stop it with putting your e-mail body in my MUA OT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JC Dill)
Wed Jul 10 12:21:27 2002
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:18:43 -0700
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>,
"Email List: nanog" <nanog@nanog.org>
From: JC Dill <nanog@vo.cnchost.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020710155340.GB65349@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 08:53 AM 7/10/02, Leo Bicknell wrote:
>If people are throwing away MIME messages with a single "text/plain"
>section then they are firmly in the wrong. All of the "modern"
>text and GUI mailers display this properly, inline, as a plain old
>text message.
Per the recently posted stats for members of *this* list:
Microsoft 38.71%
Mozilla 11.41%
Eudora 10.86%
I'm using a recent version of the #3 mailer, which I would think qualifies
as a "modern" GUI mailer. It presents PGP-MIME messages as an attachment
with a format it doesn't know how to read. I'm no more interested in
upgrading (or changing) my mailer to deal with *this* attachment type than
I am in upgrading to deal with text/html attachments.
What part of "it is rude to expect all members of a large and diverse
mailing list to accept and parse your particular attachment format" isn't
perfectly clear?
Netiquette. It's been around a looooong time. You might try following it.
jc
