inline HTML, 1L8N, 16-bit character sets, the death of ASCII predicted

Fri Oct 17 13:56:50 PDT 2003

Now, if you were using SCO, I could understand your frustration ... I'm 
experiencing it, as I speak ...

(-;

-- richard

Chuck Yerkes wrote:

>Quoting richard childers / kg6hac (fscked at pacbell.net):
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>>Depends on your client and level of sophistication, doesn't it?
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>Yeah, I find that the ignorant use HTML in mail and the sophisticated
>computer folks I deal with don't.
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>>Rich text isn't going away any time soon. In fact, most clients 
>>automatically convert anything that parses as a URL into a clickable 
>>entity. Multiple fonts are frequently embedded in messages.
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>And that's an entry vector for viruses and trojans.
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>>I personally find it valuable to use bold to highlight certain critical 
>>elements of communications to clients, so that there is no misunderstanding.
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>And that's about the only legit use.
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>>The majority of the world's users increasingly agree, that this adds 
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>"the majority"
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>The "majority" would be using Novell LANs and not be sending intercompany
>email were it not for us small minority.  The "majority" use an OS
>with *massive* security holes every week, with a User interface that's
>inconsistent and awkward.  The "majority" believe that it's ok to have
>15 conflicting interaction metaphors to use their computers.  The majority
>can't figure out how to effectively use a 3 button mouse.
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>Let's keep the majority out of it.
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>>value ... and with 18LN efforts solidly based on 16-bit character sets, 
>>the days of plain old ASCII are, I suspect, numbered.
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>Yup.  Likely to another 30 years.
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>HTML would be far more acceptable if:
>  commercial mail tools didn't "go fetch" images or other things
>  that helps spammers and attackers so much.
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>I'd embrace it if I knew it was ONLY being used for text markup.
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>As it stands, any message that comes in HTML only is shoved into
>a "likely spam" folder.   Of the 500+ of those messages I got in
>september, 100% are spam.
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>The days of HTML mail are, I suspect, numbered.
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