on Wed, 24 Jul 2002 03:27:25PM -0700, Paul E Condon insinuated: > To me, the most compelling reason to stick to plain text is that it > encourages authors to say what they mean, and disables or > discourages muddled thinking. uh, isn't that like asserting that writing in english as opposed to german (oo, now *there's* flame bait! ;) disables or discouranges muddled thinking?? mightn't some ideas actually be expressed more concisely in color? not that i'm not suggesting that that might apply to anything of a nature that would be relevant to this list, but rather to what's communicated over email as a whole. > On a few occasions, I have broken off writing a question to this > list because the act of writing the question forced me to think, and > I got the answer, without egg on my face. (Not many, but a few. :-) ) i do that a *lot*. that's the beauty of these lists! > This is not a flame, just my considered opinion. I really like words > and text. sure, and so do i. and i also hold that in the right context (note the parameter), the format can say a lot. but for the bulk of email, while i don't believe in a soft linguistic determinism of plaintext-vs-html, i think that text suffices. and all the html i get is spam, too. </nori> -- .~. nori @ sccs.swarthmore.edu /V\ http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/daily.html // \\ @ maenad.net /( )\ www.maenad.net ^`~'^
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