Michael Richardson {quigon} <mcr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Let me suggest that at the IETF, where the mailing list is king, you
> can't join the Elite if you can't quote email properly. Maybe we should
> *state* this.
:-)
> Maybe I'm also concerned because many in the former "elite" have moved
> to Apple Mail, and it seems that it is bug compatible with Outlook in
> it's assumption that format=flowed is the default, an act which destroys
> email quoting, and therefore discussion.
I feel a bit sorry for Apple Mail. It used to use format=flowed very
nicely, but stopped presubably for bug compatibility with Outlook which
treats a flowed paragraph as a sequence of one-line paragraphs.
There are some other interop problems caused by Outlook's gratuitous
disregard for standards:
multipart/mixed; Content-Disposition: inline doesn't work very well.
(I predict Apple Mail will stop generating this too.)
message/rfc822 attachments don't work. If it did it would be a much better
way to do forwarding and top-posting repliesthan at present. (For
instance, Outlook can hide those horrible confusing email addresses rather
than stripping them out.)
Tony.
--
f.anthony.n.finch <dot@xxxxxxxx> http://dotat.at/
Forties, Cromarty: East, veering southeast, 4 or 5, occasionally 6 at first.
Rough, becoming slight or moderate. Showers, rain at first. Moderate or good,
occasionally poor at first.