Re: OT: Flamebait: Text vs HTML email
On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 19:10, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 06:55:29PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > In fact, the only documentation that I know of that is
> > pure ASCII are README files. That's why roff was put into
> > Unix 25 years ago: because bold, underlines, italics, and
> > different point sizes *do* impart information that pure
> > ASCII can not.
>
> That said, man pages use an *extremely* conservative subset of *roff ...
True, but some extreme positions were being expressed, and I
saw the need to remind that there's a large spectrum between
low infrared and hight ultraviolet.
As in may other areas, 3" high bold, red fonts in emails can
be directly attributable to PEBKAC, and that does not invalidate
the *judicious* use of differing sizes, strokes and colors...
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