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From: Deryk Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, June 15, 1998 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: HTML-formatted mail
>> A tremendous number of people agree that there should be some kind of
markup
>> language established as a standard for email. Every commercial email
>> package supports one or more markup methods.
>
>Sorry, but your second sentence does not either follow from or lead
>logically to the previous.
That is correct. They were two statements of fact, not a progression.
The next statements progressed from these two facts.
>Oh really? And I say that I *am* against HTML in email and I am in
>favour of email's being a rich method of communication?
This particular fight has pretty much already been lost; it's unlikely at
this point that another markup language will overtake HTML as the
markup-of-choice for email.
You can, of course, continue to fight that fight; but I submit that unless
you write a really killer cross-platform application that supports your
chosen markup language and doesn't support HTML, and otherwise has some
features that just make people NEED it, you're spitting into a hurricane.
>As far as I'mn concerned, adding bloody HTML tags makes the mail
>*harder* to read and certainly doesn't increase its
>comprehensibililty.
No more so than any other markup language, if it's not processed by the
application.
Hell, ANSI tags are a lot worse.
>> Sure, there will be idiots who insist on using colors and tiny font
sizes,
>> but it's trivial to ignore them and they'll grow out of it.
>
>Oh trivial is it?
Are you saying that it's not trivial to hit delete once or twice a day, and
maybe add the offender into a killfile if he persists?
I can only recall seeing one or two emails in the last couple of weeks that
used obnoxious font sizes, and I'm drawing a blank as to a single one that
used color in a manner that detracted from the ability to read and
comprehend the message.
Yes, I'd say ignoring that is pretty trivial, unless you're using "less" to
read your email.
>Apart from the fact that MIT specifically ask us *not* to call it
>X-Windows.... this is total and utter nonsense.
Who, other than ivory-tower pseudo-intellectuals, gives a crap what MIT says
we should call it?
The folks who complained that I misspelled "asterisk" had a point, but this
is just goofy.
Are you going to complain that I'm saying "Linux" instead of "GNU/Linux"
next, and present it as if it were a valid point of argument related to the
subject at hand?
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