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Re: H.T.M.L. (RE: Getting home directory in Windows 2000 environment)


GARYDJONES,


At 08:39 2003-04-10, you wrote:
Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com> wrote:
> Hannu,

> At 15:15 2003-04-09, you wrote:

>> --- HTML contents snipped ---
>>
>> May I ask those of you who insist in posting in HTML format to reconsider!


> It is the lingua franca of the worldwide web

Yes. Let it stay there.

> and it is widely supported by GUI mail and news clients.

Does that mean that we should all post in jpegs since we could then achieve exactly the same thing?

That is a strawman argument and false in its own right.



> Personal communications must extend beyond
> simple text without stylistic variation for computers to fully
> facilitate human communication.

Post your proof.

Ipso loquitur. People communicate audibly, visually as well as textually. Arbitrary restriction to styleless text is artificial and unjustified.



People have been using plain text to communicate quite satisfactorily, thank
you very much.

>> c) Attached images add an unnecessary burden on email downloads

> Burden? On whom?

On every single person that receives it. That much must be obvious, or are
you being deliberately obtuse?

Let me rephrase: _What_ burden? There is no burden.



> If the poster feels the need to communicate visually,
> then it is their prerogative.

Just as it would be my perogative to ignore it or bounce it.

Yes, you may plug your ears and cover you eyes all you want. No one loses but you.



>> Offending software:
>>   AFAIK only MICROSOFT Outlook and  Outlook Express has this enabled by
>> default; SHAME ON YOU M.S!

> Again, this is BS. I use Eudora for mail and Mozilla (and before it
> Netscape) for news, and they all send HTML mail and images without a
> problem.

By default?

Yes.



> Please don't be so atavistic. By definition everyone using Cygwin is
> using an operating system whose GUI subsystem is not optional.

Whereas html /is/ optional.

So are lower-case letters.



Randall Schulz



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