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FromKeith Owens <>
SubjectRe: Whining about MIME formatted email
DateFri, 08 Sep 2000 18:33:34 +1100
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000 09:29:28 +0300, 
Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org> wrote:
>> From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
>> Please do not use quoted-printable to mail to l-k, plain text without
>> MIME is much better.
>
> Do use some MUA software which handles MIME formats properly,
> and stop whining. Oddly I recall that EXMH was used as
> a prototype platform during the MIME specification development.

Exmh handles MIME just fine and MIME is useful for some things. Other
people (including Linus) have made it clear that MIME is not welcome on
linux-kernel, plain text format is always better when you are sending
plain text. What next, rich text format and HTML with multiple copies
of the text, MSWord format?

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