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[der.hans]

Am 25. Sep, 2002 schwätzte Tom Achtenberg so:

> This still does not explain why you feel the need to sigh the message in the
> first place.  As for my client, yes I am on a Windows machine and using
> Outlook Express 6.  I have not found a stable Linux client that is as good
> or user friendly and that includes Evolution.  When over 90% of the users
> use a client that works in a certain way, that is the norm and I would not
> call it "broken" because it does not perform a needless function a certain
> way.

I don't care how many people do it that way. If it breaks the standard, it's
wrong. True, the fix might be to fix the standard, rather than how people do
stuff, but until one or the other is fixed, the non-compliant clients are
wrong.

In the case of your '90%' number, you're suggesting we let one company
destroy the standards. That's not a good idea, even if they hadn't gotten
the '90%' by lying, cheating and stealing.

In this particular case it might be a client that doesn't implement a
particular standard. I don't know if the standard is required, so the client
might be 'feature poor' rather than borken.

I don't like html mail, but multipart messages are in the standards, so I
use a client that correctly recognizes the different parts, then configure
it to ignore the html part.

ciao,

der.hans
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