Message-Id: <200407100149.i6A1nbFv006459@delorie.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "GARY VANSICKLE" To: Subject: RE: Extending long threads (was: RE: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for "I'm having basic problems with find. Why?")) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 20:49:32 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes > As a person who regularly uses HTML style email and posting > (much to many peoples chargrin and complaints) I rarely > "fester" them with "all" > sorts of colors and fonts. Other HTML emails and posts I > receive are also rarely "festered" with all sorts of colors > and fonts. Why? Because doing so takes time, knowledge and > effort and most people simply don't take the time, have the > knowledge nor can be bothered with the effort required. As > such I don't think such an argument holds much water. IOW I > think if people of your opinion see just one bolding they'll > call it "festered with all sorts of colors and fonts". > There's three reasons people knee-jerk against HTML email: 1. It isn't ASCII (i.e. the "Back in my day a child would open up a gift and within seconds he'd either burst into flames or lose a limb! That's the way it was and we liked it!"[1] Defense). 2a. There isn't an email program alive which can do a "Reply" to an HTML email properly. 2b. ...especially those which support VT-100 terminals. 3. The lines are longer than 80 characters ;-). I fall under category 2a, but my knee isn't jerking: If Outlook didn't absolutely s*ck *ss at "editing" HTML I wouldn't care. -- Gary R. Van Sickle [1] Dana Carvey, Grumpy Old Man, SNL -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/