Re: [Asrg] Introduction and another idea

mathew <meta@pobox.com> Thu, 26 June 2003 18:24 UTC

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On Sunday, June 22, 2003, at 07:47 PM, Vernon Schryver wrote:
>> Indeed.  If users are unhappy with text/plain (and want bold, italics,
>> etc., reflowing paragraphs and so on), then we've already got a
>> non-HTML solution: text/enriched, rfc1896.
>
> What common MUA's can generate or even display RFC 1896 rich text?

Eudora.

> That is realistic, but we could also hope to get software producers
> to turn off HTML by default, or at least until the user asks for
> some formatting.

Like Apple Mail does, for example.


mathew


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