Re: [pbmserv-dev] MIME encoding?

[Yves Rutschle <y.rutschle@indigovision.com>]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 07:54:21PM +0200, Eduard Werner wrote:
> BTW, I think the approach targets the wrong side: The nice thing to
> have would be an email client filtering out the pbmserver messages and
> sending them to special frontends (that's easy up to here). These
> special frontends might allow you to have a look at the board, try out
> lines and send a reply move.

Hmm I don't think I agree here. I know it's not very
difficult (I wrote my own viewer for Go and Othello) but
these things are typically not completely easy to set-up,
not very portable (across e-mail clients that is), and not
co-ordinated (is there one viewer out there that is used by
more than 5 people?). 

Doing it properly on the server side wouldn't harm people
who want to keep using their own viewer, while giving others
the opportunity of getting graphics without having to tweak
for hours. (Another interesting poll would be to see who
uses client-side viewers depending on their mailers. I'd bet
that most viewers are used by users of mutt, elm, emacs,
people who aren't afraid of tweaking. Now, think of people
using Outlook, Hotmail etc).

I admit I was somewhat skeptical at using HTML, but
Richard's example of a trax board convinced me: the
increase of bandwidth isn't that important (it beats
attaching a PNG for example), you can still see pure ascii,
and the graphics look beautiful.

/Y