Re: ANNOUNCE: Hypermail in C, version 1.0 (fwd)
Arthur Secret (secret@hpwww.cern.ch)
Fri, 2 Sep 94 18:31:47 METDST
>To: kevinh@eit.com, ehood@convex.com
>Cc: Multiple recipients of list <www-announce@www0.cern.ch>
>From: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@hal.com>
>
>>
>> *Hypermail* is a program that takes a file of mail messages in
>>UNIX mailbox format and generates a set of cross-referenced HTML documents.
>[...]
>> * Using the <html> tag, HTML passages in articles can be marked
>> so they can be parsed
>
>A few suggestions, if you don't mind ...
>
>What about body parts that are explicitly marked text/html in the MIME
>headers? I'm always disappointed when I take the trouble to wrap a posting
>up as a multipart/alternative with text/plain and text/html parts, only
>to have it garbled by the various list servers and mail->html converters.
>
>See, for example:
>
> http://gummo.stanford.edu/html/hypermail/www-talk-1994q3/0139.html
>
>Hmmm... it would be nice to see text/setext support too. See:
>
> http://www.bsdi.com/setext/
>
>
>Forms-based searching by message id, author, date, subject, keywords,
>and fulltext (and/or combinations of the above) would be nice too!