On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 06:47:20PM -0500, Keith Moore wrote: > On 3/1/21 6:32 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > > > (FWIW, I myself perennially find myself reminding people that the official > > IETF mail archive (web) service only displays the text/plain component, so > > things like color and <div>s for quoting/indentation are lost.) > > To me it seems like an "official" archive needs to preserve messages in > the formats in which they were submitted, or as close to that as possible. > > I can certainly understand if the web interface to such an archive > doesn't support every aspect of MIME, or if it is careful about what > HTML (or JS, or...) it presents to the reader. But losing color and > indentation seems very sub-optimal. > > It's just a simple matter of (yet more) programming I suppose. And the > devil is in the details. I put the "web" qualifier in because there is also an official IMAP archive, that does preserve the message as submitted. But it's not very discoverable and requires quite a bit more effort to set up and use. -Ben
