ASCII Ribbon Campaign

The ASCII ribbon campaign is an Internet phenomenon started in 1998 advocating that e-mail be sent only in plain text, because of inefficiencies and dangers of the HTML system when used with email.

History

Following the development of Microsoft Windows 95, certain people became annoyed that they were receiving email in HTML and other non-human readable formats. Sally Hambridge of the Intel Corporation wrote in the RFC 1855 entitled "Netiquette Guidelines" dated October 1995: "Do not include control characters or non-ASCII attachments in email messages". The first known appearance of a ribbon in support of the campaign was in the signature of an email dated 17th June 1998 by Mauricio Teixeira of Brazil [http://arc.pasp.de/] .

ee also

*ASCII
*Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
*MIME
* Blue ribbon campaign

External links

* [http://www.asciiribbon.org/ The ASCII Ribbon Campaign]
* [http://arc.pasp.de/ ASCII Ribbon Campaign]