Re: [Pan-users] Reading an HTML posting when using 'old' Pan

[Rui Maciel]

On 02/09/2012 12:34 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I really don't understand the choice of displaying HTML attachments 
> in-line as raw text. It seems to be saying "Screw you, I dislike HTML 
> posts and so will deliberately make them as obnoxious and annoying as 
> possible in the hope that Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, IBM, etc. will 
> change their mind about supporting HTML mail in their mail clients". 
> As if that's ever going to happen.

Do you happen to know any Usenet standard that supports HTML?  RFC 
5536,[1] which defines the Netnews article format and refers to RFC 
5322,[2] does not support any format in the message body section.  If 
Netnews articles do not support HTML then where do you see anyone 
refusing to support any standard?

Adding to this, if you seriously dislike having someone deliberately 
making stuff as obnoxious and annoying as possible then you should 
direct your anger at those who find it acceptable to post HTML stuff to 
Usenet.  It isn't supported, it doesn't make sense, it is useless and it 
is annoying.  So, why do it?



Rui Maciel

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5536
[2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322