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From: Bob Young <BYoung@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc compile failed after 2005.1-r1 instalation [OT- html posts]
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 23:33:44
Message-Id: FAEEIJPAOFEMBBLKPMJEKEADDOAA.BYoung@NuCORETech.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc compile failed after 2005.1-r1 instalation [OT- html posts] by "Florian D."
1 -----Original Message-----
2 From: Florian D. [mailto:flockmock@×××.at]
3 Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 2:18 PM
4 To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
5 Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: gcc compile failed after 2005.1-r1
6 instalation [OT- html posts]
7
8 Bob Young wrote:
9 >
10 >" It's pretty rare that a modern email client can't deal
11 > with html. I would argue that the very few desktops not using some
12 > flavor of GUI should not force a limiting "least common denominator"
13 > type policy.
14
15
16 yeah. lets get rid of the minorities.
17
18 I didn't suggest "getting rid" of them. I'm saying that it's true that when
19 email, lists, and newsgroups first started, they didn't handle formatted
20 text. However that seems poor justification for saying that it *must* remain
21 that way now and forever more. At what point do we actually allow our selves
22 to communicate with each other using more of the nuance and style that
23 current technology easily allows us?
24 If some wish to filter out html or KF such messages all together they are
25 free to do so, current technology can very easily accommodate that. I just
26 don't think it should be a faux pas to post in a richer format than plain
27 text.
28
29
30 > If a few extra Kbytes here or there in
31 > an email message is really causing a problem for someone, then an
32 > upgrade should probably be priority. Most messages are much larger
33 > than they need to be anyway because people don't trim quotes.
34
35
36 this is about private emails. emails in mailing lists should be short
37 and concise. i wonder what the big archive-sites think about this..
38
39 What do they think about it now when people quote 100+ lines of text in
40 order to give a one-sentence reply?
41
42 I don't think the addition of a few tags and a bit of metadata is really a
43 major problem.
44
45
46 > Lastly there are some things that are just easier to communicate in a
47 > html format, diagrams and tables come to mind, we've all seen ASCII
48 > diagrams of various things and had to stare at them trying to
49 > decipher what was the author actually trying to communicate. Even in
50 > a mostly text message, bold, italic, enlarged/reduced, or colored
51 > text used for emphasis or de-emphasis can make communication much
52 > more clear. In short I just think that there is this "knee-jerk"
53 > reaction to html email in the FLOSS community, and it isn't justified
54 > by an objective evaluation.
55
56
57 if you don´t like ascii graphics, then you don´t know the textmode quake
58 project ;-)
59 http://webpages.mr.net/bobz/ttyquake/
60
61
62 Actually I do like ASCII graphics, I just don't think it's the best method
63 of representing many types of information.
64
65
66 > Must we be constrained to communicate with each other via nothing
67 > more sophisticated than plain text forever and ever?
68
69
70 read Wittgenstein. plain text and very sophisticated.
71
72 Sophisticated content, and the sophistication level of the medium used to
73 deliver that content are two different things.
74
75
76 Regards
77 Bob Young
78
79
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