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 or dangers of using HTML e-mail. Proponents placed ASCII art in their signature blocks, meant to look like an awareness ribbon, along with a message or link to an advocacy site:

()  ascii ribbon campaign - against HTML e-mail 
/\  www.asciiribbon.org   - against proprietary attachments

                       _
ASCII ribbon campaign ( )
 against HTML e-mail   X
                      / \

/"\
\ /  ASCII Ribbon Campaign
 X    against HTML e-mail
/ \

History

Following the development of Microsoft Windows 95, certain people^[who?] 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 17 June 1998 by Mauricio Teixeira of Brazil.^[1]

See also

• ASCII
• Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
• MIME

References

External links

• The ASCII Ribbon Campaign
• ASCII Ribbon Campaign
• The ASCII Ribbon Campaign and its supporters

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