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-----Original Message----- |
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From: Florian D. [mailto:flockmock@×××.at] |
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Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 2:18 PM |
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To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc compile failed after 2005.1-r1 |
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instalation [OT- html posts] |
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Bob Young wrote: |
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>" It's pretty rare that a modern email client can't deal |
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> with html. I would argue that the very few desktops not using some |
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> flavor of GUI should not force a limiting "least common denominator" |
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> type policy. |
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yeah. lets get rid of the minorities. |
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I didn't suggest "getting rid" of them. I'm saying that it's true that when |
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email, lists, and newsgroups first started, they didn't handle formatted |
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text. However that seems poor justification for saying that it *must* remain |
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that way now and forever more. At what point do we actually allow our selves |
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to communicate with each other using more of the nuance and style that |
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current technology easily allows us? |
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If some wish to filter out html or KF such messages all together they are |
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free to do so, current technology can very easily accommodate that. I just |
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don't think it should be a faux pas to post in a richer format than plain |
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text. |
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> If a few extra Kbytes here or there in |
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> an email message is really causing a problem for someone, then an |
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> upgrade should probably be priority. Most messages are much larger |
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> than they need to be anyway because people don't trim quotes. |
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this is about private emails. emails in mailing lists should be short |
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and concise. i wonder what the big archive-sites think about this.. |
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What do they think about it now when people quote 100+ lines of text in |
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order to give a one-sentence reply? |
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I don't think the addition of a few tags and a bit of metadata is really a |
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major problem. |
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> Lastly there are some things that are just easier to communicate in a |
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> html format, diagrams and tables come to mind, we've all seen ASCII |
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> diagrams of various things and had to stare at them trying to |
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> decipher what was the author actually trying to communicate. Even in |
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> a mostly text message, bold, italic, enlarged/reduced, or colored |
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> text used for emphasis or de-emphasis can make communication much |
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> more clear. In short I just think that there is this "knee-jerk" |
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> reaction to html email in the FLOSS community, and it isn't justified |
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> by an objective evaluation. |
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if you don´t like ascii graphics, then you don´t know the textmode quake |
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project ;-) |
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http://webpages.mr.net/bobz/ttyquake/ |
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Actually I do like ASCII graphics, I just don't think it's the best method |
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of representing many types of information. |
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> Must we be constrained to communicate with each other via nothing |
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> more sophisticated than plain text forever and ever? |
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read Wittgenstein. plain text and very sophisticated. |
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Sophisticated content, and the sophistication level of the medium used to |
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deliver that content are two different things. |
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Regards |
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Bob Young |
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