Proposal for a subtag registration (fr-2004-ORTOGRAF or fr-ortograf ?) redone by CEW

[Randy Presuhn]

Hi -

> From: "Michael Everson" <everson at evertype.com>
> To: <ietf-languages at alvestrand.no>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 12:25 PM
> Subject: Re: Proposal for a subtag registration (fr-2004-ORTOGRAF or fr-ortograf ?) redone by CEW
>
> At 20:26 +0100 2007-12-11, Frank Ellermann wrote:
> 
> >I'm currently using a very dangerous MUA where
> >permitting HTML would be near to suicidal.  It's
> >nothing personal, "get a better MUA" is on my
> >list, but not in the top ten.
> 
> Please speak English.

Translation:
  Please post messages to the list in plain text.
  Permitting some email programs to interpret HTML
  entails excessive security risks.  Consequently,
  prudent users of such systems disable the display
  of HTML email message content.  One might argue
  that the users of such systems should replace their
  systems or software with more robust packages.
  However, these users may have more pressing
  concerns at the moment.

I agree that posting email messages encoded in HTML
is generally not a good practice, particularly when the
HTML adds no value to what could be carried in plain text.

Randy