Re: the "email standards project"

Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org> wrote on 30.11.2007 08:14:09 +0530
the message [Re: the "email standards project"], Message-ID:
<20071130024409.GA11625@toroid.org>

> In my message, that quote followed the URL
> (http://www.email-standards.org).

I just visited the site, eagerly reading page by page; it seems that
the site has been created this year, 2007. I agree that there is a
tremendous need for minimal, but well working standards for e-mail
applications.

Being also concerned about usability aspects on the end-user (or
"end-reader") level, I would like to observe:

(1) On the "Email Standards Project" homepage, you propose e-mail
updates, thus a newsletter subscription. It would be desirable that
newsletter publishers also provide some info on the average size of
the proposed publication as well as on its periodicity, e.g. "one per
week" or "5to7 per month" etc.

(2) Your 11 reports on various clients are also valuable. Let me post
here my experience with MS-OE-6 and with respect to this forum here.
If I click to "Respond" (mailto:public-html-mail@w3.org?Subject=Re:
the "email standards project" ...), then the mailer opens a blank
e-mail and I have to copy&paste the quotations from the considered
posting as well as to set the >-marks. In other words, my mailer knows
nothing about the "forum engine". In case of the usenet, and various
companies maintain their forums in "usenet format", my mailer knows
what to do and returns an e-mail with the appropriate quotation of the
concerned message. What about enhancing the reports on clients by
indicating what kind of internet forums they know or could deal with?

Greetings, PY