Thunderbird 3.0 to begin ascent next month: what to expect (ars technica)

Thunderbird 3.0 to begin ascent next month: what to expect (ars technica)

Posted Mar 6, 2008 3:35 UTC (Thu) by proski (subscriber, #104)
In reply to: Thunderbird 3.0 to begin ascent next month: what to expect (ars technica) by orev
Parent article: Thunderbird 3.0 to begin ascent next month: what to expect (ars technica)

I would prefer to have a standard for rich e-mail, possibly a subset of HTML, carefully designed to limit risks from malicious contents to the recipient. I'm not aware of such standard. Maybe the new Gecko could help develop such standard by making it possible to limit HTML? That would be interesting.

By the way, I've noticed a strong correlation between HTML e-mail and cluelessness of the author. If I answer an HTML post in a mailing list, there is a good chance that I would get a personal reply without a copy to the mailing list, perhaps with some questions others can answer better or with information others may need. At which point I should take an extra effort and tell the sender to post to the list.

The end result is that "HTML writers" are losing in those lists every day, because their posts are not answered by those who don't have time for clueless replies and private conversations. Mind you, no arguing about the mail format is taking place, it's just a natural selection.

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