[92432] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Removal of my brain
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Vierling)
Wed Sep 20 16:44:15 2006
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:23:46 -0400
From: "Todd Vierling" <tv@pobox.com>
To: "billn@billn.net" <billn@billn.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609201230070.22057@pegasus.billn.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 9/20/06, billn@billn.net <billn@billn.net> wrote:
> More to the point, why punish the entire list by bickering about a
> minority inability to cope with the fact that some people are different?
It's because some MUAs are dain bramaged.
> The world has more than eight bits.
Which is just one of the reasons that the MIME type
"multipart/alternative" exists. Sane MUAs that wish to send HTML also
send a text/plain alternative segment in the same MIME stream.
The unfortunate part is that this classifies Thunderbird as not
"sane", because its default configuration for dual-format output is
"ask me" based on whether all addresses are in the address book with
the HTML option enabled, rather than simply always sending multipart
by default.
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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>
