At 02:59 PM 6/16/98 -0400, you wrote:
>On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Deryk Barker wrote:
>
>> > It really comes down to this:
>> >
>> > You're either in favor of HTML markup in email, or you're not in favor of
>> > email being a very rich method of communication compared to speech.
>>
>> Oh really? And I say that I *am* against HTML in email and I am in
>> favour of email's being a rich method of communication?
>
> Strong second! Email should ONLY be straight ASCII text.
It is hard for me to believe that we are a Linux group with such primitive
understanding of technological change. The arguments here sound like what
a guy who used to use Morse Code would say about a telephone years ago.
"Are you kidding, if people could just talk and talk they would never get
to the point. Keeping short simple sentences in morse code is the only way
to communicate long distances." ergo ..-. ..- -.-. -.- --- ..-. ..-.
>
>> > I don't think we should tolerate email remaining in it's outmoded old
form
>> > when there's such an easy way to increase it's utility for
>> > communication.
>>
>> As far as I'm concerned, adding bloody HTML tags makes the mail
>> *harder* to read and certainly doesn't increase its
>> comprehensibility.
>
> Without a doubt.
If you see html tags in the text ... get another mail reader ;)
>
> The bottom line is this: It all revolves around writing skills.
>A moderately educated person should be able to express their
>thoughts/feelings/wants/desires by using the written word. To use
>crutches and gimmicks (such as HTML) is to show a complete lack of written
>communications skills. Did Shakespeare need HTML? Did Asimov? Are the
>Bible and the Declaration of Independence and the Koran and the Tao
>worthless and meaningless because they were written in plane, ordinary
>text?
>
> I know that it is to late to stop HTML encoded email. The genie
>is out of the bottle. But it is my contention that someone who must
>resort to HTML (or any other kind of fancy formating) in order to express
>their thoughts is to be pitied. No moderately educated or intelligent
>person would need anything more than plane text for email. Period.
Please. Lighten up. The ability to communicate has NOTHING to do with HTML.
However, having a link in a mail message that is available with a
double-click can be really clean.
>
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