Hello Nick, On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 09:58:51 -0700 GMT (18/07/02, 23:58 +0700 GMT), Nick Andriash wrote:
NA> I agree as well... it would be nice to use bolded text, or underline, or NA> colour a certain word, or even change the point size of a word... I disagree. Maybe that's because when I was at school (which is many winters ago), we learned that a good writing style includes to make yourself understood without all this. Even without parenthesis and all those neat little rhethoric-deficiency helpers that are available in plain text. I have gone to use parenthesis and even the odd *astrisks* to enhance meanings in emails (keyword: civilisation in decline), but not in important letters. The "3 R's" are in jeopardy anyway - read some of the submissions in the slush pile of www.darwinawards.com and weep about people's inability to even write coherently. What if those submitters were allowed to use rich text? Please, don't do it to me. If you want to enhance a word in an email, do it by writing a context that makes me understand "why", not just by yelling it at me. Make me understand you due to your use of words, without need to express emphasis with size or colour. -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. Salmon day: Swimming upstream all day to get screwed in the end. Message reply created with The Bat! 1.62/Beta1 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using an AMD Athlon K7 1.2GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.61 FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/
