On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 04:23:02PM NZDT, Steve Bell wrote: > Just as an aside, two thoughts... <wraps self in tin-foil for an even > browning>
Fair enough. I find a little garlic goes nicely, too. > Are not most geeks on broadband now... Well, a majority of you anyway? There's more dialup than you might think. Even still, bandwidth is a commodity and a finite resource. Why waste the bits? > And, Linux is purporting itself to become a viable desktop replacement for > Windows, yet we refuse to move with the big trends (the majority of Win > users would use HTML by default, no?). It's like those teachers who last > century, refused to let students use a ballpoint pen, because they would > forget how to use an inkwell. > > If I had the balls, I would now turn on HTML, and write in 36 point font, > red, flashing, "Get over it!" ;-0 I wouldn't even notice it. HTML mail is dumped into a text file for my text-based mail reader to handle. I'm not against progress, and I don't think any of us are. But I'm not a big fan of big flashy neon lights in my email. I'd rather have the speedy pace of text. I read my mail over a secure shell connection to North America. I don't want to wait for images and pointless markup when all I really care about is content. > But as I don't want to get kicked off the list... I'm sure that wouldn't happen. We may be opinionated, but we're generally friendly. :) Greg --- -
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