At 5:24 PM -0600 12/10/00, Allen Ethridge wrote:
On 11/30/00 at 1:46 AM, tcmay@got.net (Tim May) wrote:
So, you might say, "it works." Nope. Problems:
1. I ain't gonna read messages that require me to launch my word processor. Mail shouldn't need external word processors or text editors.
Mail programs need, at the very least, text editors, or it becomes difficult to compose. Or do you mean that word processors should be integrated into mail programs?
Did you miss the word "external" in my sentence? Let me repeat it for you: "Mail shouldn't need external word processors or text editors." In-line vs. attachment is the issue here. Most of those who have been using the "attachment" setting have belatedly realized their errors and are now in-lining their text.
Fact is, PGP and SMIME went the _wrong_ direction when message signings started to require RTF, MIME, HTML, etc. (I realize these are not all the same thing. The real issue is "non-ASCII.")
Luddite.
I tried above to be polite. Now this. PLONK. --Tim May -- (This .sig file has not been significantly changed since 1992. As the election debacle unfolds, it is time to prepare a new one. Stay tuned.)