I just subscribed to this list. I manage a small general e-mail discussion
group, the CS List, and participate in several other ones.
As to accented characters, my Eudora Lite 3.0 lets me use the Alt + keypad
to write the accented characters in the high ASCII set, but I don't know
whether these are correct on all the receiving sets. Most people are so
inured to the rudimentary typesetting capacities of ordinary e-mail that
they don't worry much about it.
Some of the llists I participate in are literary discussions, and there is
a frequent need for real accents, real italics or underlining, and real
symbols instead of makehift equivalents such as all caps or _ before &
after titles of books. Rules for these things exist in abundance, but when
it is impossible to practice uniform observances of them, it becomes a
free-for-all.
I'd like to see a golden mean somewhere between sloppy and unreadable plain
text and the pretty but empty formatting possible on web pages. And I
can't resist adding that while employers wring their hands over high school
(and college, alas) graduates' inability to write decent prose, the
software companies are pushing snazzy graphic formatting capatillities to
the schools.
I do have a specific question: does anyone know how to prevent Eudora
from putting down a rank of angle brackets down the left side of forwarded
messages? Or if it won't, is there any e-mailer that will?
Thanks.
Nancy Charlton
Portland OR
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At 12:29 PM 2/17/99 -0500, you wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 12:34:19PM +0100, Nicolas Brouard wrote:
>> [...] the need of rich, structured, colored documents is real.
>
>I strongly disagree with this.
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