On 5/15/19 5:46 PM, Nico Williams wrote:
Anyone using BUI/GUI MUAs will generally have trouble with proper e-mail
etiquette. Some BUI/GUI MUAs at least give you the option or even
default to something close to angle bracket quoting...
...but one MUA whose name is cursed defaults to top-posting w/o angle
bracket quoting and makes it really difficult to enable angle bracket
quoting, and then makes it really difficult to use that correctly. The
vendor of that cursed MUA has been improving lots of things in their
stack enormously of late -- they're doing impressive work. Maybe, just
maybe, someone there will find it possible to remediate that cursed MUA.
That one MUA has made e-mail poison, made it more IM-like without being
IM.
Part of the advice might need to be "use a different MUA for IETF work".
Keith
p.s. The failure so far to find a good way of annotating text in HTML
actually illustrates a deep underlying flaw in the SGML/XML/HTML model
of text - annotated text is not hierarchically structured (even if the
subject text is, which is by no means certain) and Procrustean attempts
to annotated text into a tree-structured model are somewhere between
needlessly complex or doomed to failure.
