[lug] On standards conformance

[Lee Woodworth]

Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> On 11/30/2009 08:29 PM, Tom Christiansen wrote:
>> I didn't say to do that, or even that everyone should.  You were the 
>> one with the problem, so I kindly pointed out that your mailer was
>> behind the times in certain regards, and offered one possible upgrade
> 
> "the times" do *NOT* include using PDF as the primary content for e-mail.
> My mail readers are *NOT* behind "the times".
> 
> Your entire discussion is based on the idea that PDF as the primary body
> for e-mail is perfectly normal, and you are making language-lawyer
> arguments based on this, bogus, assertion.
> 
> As nobody else seems to be interested in taking up my assertion that we
> should be blocking PDF attachments, I'll guess that everyone else is happy
> with this and call this discussion ended.

The thread is generally uninteresting to me -- but I do _not_ want PDF
attachments as the only content part of email. Even our browsers are
configured to not display PDFs and flash on purpose. I haven't read any of
the posts that were PDFs, and will not in the future, not worth my time.