Re: XML e-mail (was: RE: security problem in emailing HTML)

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Stephanos Piperoglou wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Bart Szyszka wrote:
> 

> > HTML in e-mail is useful if you're subscribed to a newletter like 
> > Wired.com's or CNet.com's.
> 
> That's not necessarily true. And anyway, these newsletters could just
> as easily be sent as attachments in HTML.

Yep.

> Maybe a nice, simple, clean XML DTD for e-mail would be nice. Just a
> few elements[...]

For preparation, perhaps.  For storage and/or archiving, certainly a good
idea.  For normal correspondence, it's shares the same bad idea with
(pseudo)HTML - it presumes too much about what the recipient is -ah-
"supposed" to have.  So, if the XML version does exist, "down-translate"
it to text/plain for delivery, and make the original available by some
other means, e.g. a URL in the Mime headers.


Arjun