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!
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