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Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 20:15:29 -0600
To: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: For The Record: HTML Email on the Internet; RFC 2557
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From: "Chalres "grey wolf" Banas" <greywolf AT the-junkyard DOT net>
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On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 16:16:35 -0700, Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com> 
wrote:

> To Whom It May Concern,
>
> The IETF publishes this standard for electronic mail on the Internet 
> using HTML and even supports resource references in the HTML whose 
> targets (images, sounds, etc.) can be incorporated into the same MIME 
> message as the HTML body.
>
> In my opinion, it's simply foolish to anchor electronic mail in the pre- 
> markup, pre-media days of text-only electronic communication.
>
> Randall Schulz
>
<snip>

really, though, just because there's a standard defined to it, why waste 
bandwidth, time, money, and resources on something not everyone wants to 
see or use?

it seems to me, IMHO, that you're trying to convert everyone who prefers 
plain-text.

you. are. wasting. your. time.  and mine.

we all know your opintion, and i've made mine known.  so end the argument 
here.  now.

-- 
Charles "grey wolf" Banas
http://the-junkyard.net  tech advisor

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