David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:47:24 -0500:
> Yes, but one problem is that those who HTML usually don't *see* the > point as the dominant broken email client interprets HTML even when it > appears in the middle of Content-Type: text/plain. So to them it looks > like pretty formatted text rather than the mess it really is. Even when >-quoted? That was the point... it's >-quoted so it /should/ show up pretty much as-is. If it interprets it even when >-quoted, that's even worse, especially because the > is an HTML tag delineator as well, making it pure guess- work at best as to whether that's a quote-mark or an HTML tag delineator. Sure, > as HTML at the beginning of the line would be strange, but it'd be no more broken on the part of the sending client than trying to decide whether it was an HTML tag closer or a quote-mark. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
