From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "pd" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Editing email replies Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 17:43:51 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031507775 5976 127.0.0.1 (8 Sep 2002 17:56:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 17:56:15 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17o6I8-0001Y8-00 for ; Sun, 08 Sep 2002 19:56:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17o6IB-0004tn-00; Sun, 08 Sep 2002 13:56:15 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!isdnet!howland.erols.net!usc.edu!attla2!ip.att.net!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.147.208.212 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com Original-X-Trace: rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net 1031507031 24.147.208.212 (Sun, 08 Sep 2002 17:43:51 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 17:43:51 GMT Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:104587 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:1144 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1144 "Benjamin Riefenstahl" wrote in message news:m3lm6demzz.fsf@benny-ppc.benny.crocodial.de... > Hi Peter, > > > Peter Davis writes: > > Well, I know I'm probably in a minority here, but I actually think > > HTML e-mail is a pretty good idea. You can get much more readable, > > and more *meaningful* content with HTML. > > Shouldn't that read "more meaningful form"? HTML does nothing about > the content as far as I see. > > One could say that exactly because people should look at their > content, they should not distract themself and their readers with > extraneous form elements. In my experience HTML is very, very rarely > an improvement in email (or Usenet) messages. I don't want to prolong this debate too much. However, I couldn't help but notice that your reply has quoted part of mine, and contains two blocks of text with a blank line between them. Is that form or content? Answer: it's both! The fact that text is divided into paragraphs, or that documents are divided into sections, possibly with headers in a different typeface, or that lists and nested lists can be structured by indentation, etc. are both form and content. These things can not be separated as easily as some people think. HTML can help to communicate these things more clearly than plain text. -pd