Re: comments on 'private use' section of proposal - Sanity check

On 2010-07-19 Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com> wrote:

>But hand-authoring HTML email? I have never heard of someone doing
>that. I presume it is possible, but I don't know of any software that
>supports it and I don't know of anyone who uses /usr/ucb/mail and
>sends HTML mail, or writes their email in HTML by hand and uses a
>custom tool to push it to an SMTP server. I seriously doubt that such
>people exist in triple-digit numbers, to be honest.

Email "blasts" to marketing lists are often authored by hand (or 
use templates that were originally authored by hand.) You're 
talking a _lot_ more than triple digits there.

Regards,


-Steve

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Steve Axthelm
steveax@pobox.com

Received on Monday, 19 July 2010 19:03:29 UTC