> If the mailers follow the proper multipart protocols and also make it > easy to hide quoted emails, move to see the original ones, etc (to add > incentives to use the protocol), then support for it can grow until > everyone will have updated just over time. once you know someone's > reader has support for it, because they send you emails using it, you > can send to them without the old inline-quoted version.
[snip] Calvin, you're whole problem appears to be that the email on the list should be modified to support your own desires. Posting in html because you prefer it. Top posting to responses rather than scrolling to the bottom of the quoted text (thus actually viewing the quoted text and snipping the unnecessary parts). You're looking at years worth of standards that have been built up and saying after all of that time they need to be changed. Fine - if you feel so strongly about it post an RFC and follow the normal process for having standards changed. Your effort to post on this list will not convince anyone nor would it make any substantial change. Simply put, the list just works. And it works because we have all agreed on how we're going to make it work. If you want to be part of the process and want to live under the established standard that we're all happy with, fine and welcome. But if all you want to do is rant over how we're not doing things the way you think they should be done, then maybe the email list is not for you. Go to the forums where you can use HTML to your hearts content. But don't keep trying to drag the list OT to justify your narrow position on how the email list should work. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
