It appears that Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx> said: >Hi, > >I'd like to take a slightly different approach, and hence >have moved this from tools-discuss because it's not (just) >a tools issue. > >We have an ongoing disaster that is making email much less effective for the IETF and we aren't talking about it. [ discussion of how mail works these days ] >Are we going to tackle this mess? I sure hope not. People already think we're out of touch old cranks without rescuscitating complaints about top posting and HTML mail from the prior millenium. I do think it's reasonable to limit messages to something like 1MB, enough for a large draft but not a giant Word file, to keep our lists more usable. Mail uses an infinitesimal share of the world's bandwidth and storage. The sizes of the messages aren't really important other than how they affect human readability. (Even the bandwidth issues go away once we separate the mail and web site into different virtual machines, as seems likely next year.) I use alpine, one of the most antique mail programs around, and even it handles HTML just fine. Let's stick to what matters. R's, John
