On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 11:35:24 AM +0000, Gordon Burgess-Parker ([email protected]) wrote:
> On 31/12/10 10:32, M. Fioretti wrote: > > > >wrong. Mine (mutt) doesn't for example, > > Then I would plonk you immediately. How do you not see that that is > TOTALLY ARROGANT? Uh??? In that part of your message you had made a purely technical assertion. You had said that email CLIENTS (i.e. not the actual people sending email, but the software programs they use) "always reply in the same format in which the original message was received". I only noticed that this purely technical assertion of yours IS wrong because it is an undeniable fact (for which I personally bear NO responsibility...) that the sending format in most email clients is only a *default* that users can change as they please, not to mention that some email clients only send as plain text. You made a technical assertion, I replied at the same level. If you think a technical default setting of most email clients (i.e. not the way people use or configure them) is totally arrogant, yell at their developers, not at me. > If I send you an email in plain text and you reply in HTML, because > YOU want to, that is complete rudeness and intolerance. Sure. But it's still wrong, as I already pointed out, to mix txt-vs-html email with ODF-vs-OOXML, because HTML is really open and not controlled by one company, OOXML is a totally different situation. So if you really need to insist in this thread (and I take the fact that you only replied at my last paragraph as a sign that you agree with everything else I wrote), at least please drop email examples entirely. Marco F. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
