At 06:47 PM 2/10/01, JC Dill wrote:
>I've had list submissions where the entire context of the post was an im
If that fits the list charter, you certainly wouldn't want demime!
>If you give a man a fish, he eats for day. If you teach a man to fish,
>he eats for a lifetime. I consider the education effort well worth it,
>and my lists seem to thrive.
Women too!
(I wonder whether more fish are caught by women or men worldwide?)
Anyway, if you're talking about teaching people to post plain text,
another useful analogy is refusing to do business in any language
other than English: You do a brisk business in some countries, no
business at all in others. Provide a translator, and you do business
EVERYWHERE. That's what demime is. Some people will NOT learn to
"speak" plain text, others will NOT stay on a list where rich text
is posted. There IS a lowest common denominator, and teaching
or taboo_headers are not involved!
I used to educate people about MIME and HTML. Life is much happier
when machines do what machines are best at (fixing stuff), leaving
people free to do what THEY are best at (thinking and writing). We
could teach people to spell correctly also, but spell checkers free
our minds for better pursuits (like worrying about GRAMMAR checkers).
SRE
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