also sprach Kent West <westk@acu.edu> [2002.07.25.0051 +0200]: > Colin thinks colors, er, I mean, colours, :-) and fonts "are useless for > communication on technical lists." I think I might disagree that they are > "useless", but I would affirm that their use may not be highly valuable. Colin's one of those withwhom I usually never disagree. On this count I can say one thing though... it would be nice to have at least something like the notion of fixed-width *and* variable width to help distinguishing between code and shell fragments and regular text... > colours for quoting. Yes, yes, the > and >> and >>> suffice, but > I think a case could be made that red for one person's quotes and > blue for another's and black for a third's is more easily picked up > by the brain. Note that I'm not saying it's expressed vastly better > than plain text, but that a case could be made that it is expressed > better. My mutt does all that. > Micheal had all this ugly stuff in his message, like "</p>" and "<p > style=blah blah>", messing up his message. I wonder what that's all > about . . . . :-) don't. > question the status quo, question authority, ask why things are the > way they are. He also agreed with Colin's point that plain text can > lead to brevity. Whereas this can be the case, I'd counter that the > added information in HTML can lead to brevity. It can go both ways, > depending on the situation. people have problems using the almost uncountable set of tools of a language to express what they want. Why make it harder for them by adding such peermutations as "bold" (err, <strong> i mean) or font size? > All in all, a lot of good comments, and I really appreciate the > well-thought out posts (and especially the lack of flaming! > thanks!). It was a properly stated message that didn't ask for flames. It be asking for flames if I were to say that mutt rocks over all other MUAs, but then again I didn't just say that ;^> Thanks btw for your elaborate summary! -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:" net@madduck "women love us for our defects. if we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects." -- oscar wilde
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