From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: evilborisnet@netscape.net, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rmail-mbox branch
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:42:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1KcjoT-0000tL-SZ@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878wu3fd4r.fsf@xemacs.org> (stephen@xemacs.org)
I understand the question as "can we achieve interoperability with
other MUAs, yet avoid (MIME-)decoding a message every time we present
it?" The answer is "only if you're willing to destroy information"
for all MIME types except 'text/plain; charset=us-ascii'.
How do you reach that conclusion for text/html?
The first two RFCs establish the requirement
that mail shall be transmitted as plain ASCII text.[1] The rest
provide various conventions for how to serialize quite arbitrary
objects, from non-ASCII text to video clips to binary blobs, as plain
ASCII text.
HTML is made of plain ASCII text.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-08 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-11 18:05 Rmail-mbox branch Chong Yidong
2008-06-30 12:20 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-06-30 13:06 ` Chong Yidong
2008-06-30 13:50 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-06-30 13:59 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-30 15:57 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <4868F9F0.2060408@pajato.com>
2008-06-30 18:29 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-30 16:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-30 17:48 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-07-03 21:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-18 5:15 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-08-18 6:01 ` Miles Bader
2008-08-18 6:05 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-08-18 6:52 ` Miles Bader
2008-08-18 12:18 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-08-29 7:04 ` Glenn Morris
2008-08-31 4:27 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-08-31 18:50 ` Chong Yidong
2008-08-31 19:15 ` Evil Boris
2008-09-01 3:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-01 11:46 ` Evil Boris
2008-09-01 19:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-01 19:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-02 3:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-01 23:46 ` Evil Boris
2008-09-02 2:38 ` Evil Boris
2008-09-02 3:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-02 11:53 ` Evil Boris
2008-09-03 20:12 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-02 14:13 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-03 2:46 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-03 4:41 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-03 6:28 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-04 0:10 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-04 2:26 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-04 7:03 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-04 8:44 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-04 13:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-04 21:58 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-04 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-04 22:00 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-05 2:20 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-05 5:33 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-06 21:05 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-08 4:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-08 8:36 ` Francesco Potorti`
2008-09-08 9:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-08 13:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-09 1:58 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-08 19:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-08 16:42 ` Richard M. Stallman [this message]
2008-09-08 17:55 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-09-09 2:54 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-09 14:11 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-10 9:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-10 11:43 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-10 12:23 ` tomas
2008-09-10 17:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-11 2:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-10 15:07 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-09-03 16:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-03 19:56 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-04 0:45 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-09-04 4:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-04 2:36 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-04 7:27 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-02 3:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-01 6:11 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-01 8:42 ` Francesco Potorti`
2008-09-01 11:25 ` Evil Boris
2008-09-01 19:39 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-01 20:20 ` Chong Yidong
2008-09-01 20:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-02 1:09 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-02 3:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-03 2:41 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-03 3:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-03 19:46 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-03 20:20 ` Chong Yidong
2008-09-03 23:37 ` Glenn Morris
2008-09-04 0:10 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-02 19:17 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-01 1:06 ` Glenn Morris
2008-09-01 19:19 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-08-19 4:31 ` Chong Yidong
2008-08-19 7:15 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-08-20 16:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-21 13:55 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-08-27 15:47 ` Stefan Monnier
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