Future of cctalk/cctech

[Chris Hanson]

On Jun 17, 2020, at 10:48 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, ED SHARPE @ AOHell.com via cctalk wrote:
>> These 2 have my vote as well....
>> I do not know, anyone using a text only mail reader anymore!
>> 
>>> The one thing I would change here is removal of the restriction on attachments.
>>> Well, two things.. Getting rid of the cctalk/cctech split as well.
> 
> I read this list on PINE, on a shell account at my ISP.
> 
> In this group, I doubt that I am the only one.
> 
> 
> Can we restrict to TEXT emails?

Why?

Pine/Alpine should show the text portion of any multipart messages perfectly reasonably, and not even attempt to download non-text MIME content from your IMAP server. Crispin designed the application and the protocol that way intentionally; his approach was always that you should be able to run your MUA locally with just a 2400bps link to your IMAP server, and get perfectly reasonable performance.

  -- Chris