On Tue, Mar 2, 2021, at 10:52, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
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 IMAParchive, that does preserve the message as submitted. But it's not verydiscoverable and requires quite a bit more effort to set up and use.
Which then feeds into the very unofficial mirror I'm running, which does preserve all the HTML stuff :)
Bron.
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