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Re: MIB module root assignment

Harrington, David wrote:

Why is it that everybody that chooses to use industry-standard
technology, such as HTML-formatted email, has to suffer these constant
complaints from people who refuse to use a standards-compliant mail
client?

To be a more precise: Just Proposed Standard.

> Why do we have to keep sending mail in a format to make sure it
is compatible with 1960s technology? 

I have seen lots of EMail messages, even lots of HTML EMail messages.
None (really none!) of them was more useful, more readable, or in any
other sense more meaningful than plain text messages just because of
the application of HTML. They were all just longer and caused more
trouble to some users. (Spam messages are an exception to this
observation. :-)

In case of the IETF mailinglists, we often have to make use of mail
archives, which are usually based on either simple mailbox files
where all messages of a period are concatenated or they are based on archive tools that generate HTML indices. But those tools that I'm
aware of do not support HTML messages, such messages become rather
unreadable in archives. To keep archives handy and searchable, HTML
is not helpful.