MIME Multi-part formatting in messages
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Sep 3 09:44:18 EDT 2002
Dear B-Greekers:
The problem of MIME multi-part formatting has emerged again, as witnessed
in this morning's mailing from bgreek at ntresources.com with
subject-heading,"RE: Source for new Greek book?" Although I'm not going to
reproduce the text with the offending formatting, those interested can
consult the above message in the web-archives at
http://franklin.oit.unc.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?sub=329&id=189543292
I've complained hitherto about HTML formatting within MIME formatting, but
the problem is more fundamentally with MIME formatting which makes possible
multi-part text formats such as are required when one uses styled text
instead of plain-text ASCII but also when one appends coded URLs such as
appear in the current message. What we must eliminate is MIME formatting
with multi-part text sections. This is always going to appear as
gobbledygook in some readers' mail and in all our digests. May I ask
list-members please NOT to use MIME multi-part formatting for ANY mail sent
for distribution to the B-Greek list. Thanks for your cooperation.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Co-Chair, B-Greek List
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu OR cwconrad at ioa.com
WWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/
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