On Sun, 20 Aug 2023, Christian Huitema wrote:
REQUIRED? Um, I think the Network Police are currently on summer vacation.
John, we would not need Internet-wide policing to enforce text only
contributions to the IETF mailing lists. We would need some kind of processor
to only forward messages if they are encoded in text/plain, or maybe to
something more complicated and only forward the text/plain rendering of the
contribution. And appropriate error messages going back to contributors of
non-forwardable messages.
If our goal is to persuade the world that the IETF is a bunch of cranky
old guys shouting GET YOUR HTML OFF MY LAWN as we decend into irrelevance,
I could see doing that. Otherwise, not.
Sometime if you're in the office see if you can find people who work on
Outlook and ask what their response would be. I'm pretty sure it would be
some variety of "wow, that was stupid."
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@xxxxxxxxx, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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