- From: Arjun Ray <aray@q2.net>
- Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 01:52:45 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
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
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