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Re: Rmail-mbox branch

From: Stephen J. Turnbull
Subject: Re: Rmail-mbox branch
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:54:04 +0900 
Richard M. Stallman writes:

 > How do you reach that conclusion for text/html?

I explained that already.

 > HTML is made of plain ASCII text.

You're just being argumentative; that's false on the face of it
("<html>Voilà!</html>"), and beside the point.  The *information* in
an HTML document is not all textual, and if the MIME media type is
text/html, users have a right to expect that that non-textual
information will be used in presentation and preserved in
transmission.

If you have a suggestion for improving Rmail which depends on
text/html being a format that doesn't require MIME encapsulation for
interoperability, please present it, and we can discuss its
feasibility.  Otherwise, we're just wasting each others' time.
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