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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Can anybody tell me how to send HTML-format mail in gnus
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:15:24 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uzlnnj52b.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <489B75F8.1040405@freenet.de>

> Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:23:52 +0200
> From: Emmett Grogan <emmettgrogan@freenet.de>
> 
> Xah is a smart guy. His emacs and elisp tutorials are the best I ever read.

They are also loaded with propaganda and skewed information that
clearly show that their author has his own agenda.

A good tutorial in my book is a tutorial that shows the reader how to
make the best use of the described tools.  A tutorial is not supposed
to critique these tools, nor preach to tweaking these tools in ways
they were never supposed to be used.

Imagine a tutorial on using a car that devotes its main parts to
explaining how to dismantle the car and assemble a tank out of its
parts.  That's how Xah's ``tutorials'' read to me.

The way Xah's ``tutorials'' are written they are actually blogs, not
tutorials.  I have nothing against blogs, but let's not call each
thing by the name it deserves.




  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-08  8:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-07 22:23 Can anybody tell me how to send HTML-format mail in gnus Emmett Grogan
2008-08-08  8:15 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-08-08  8:27   ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] <mailman.16059.1218168664.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-08 13:17 ` Xah
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-08-05 16:44 M.T
2008-08-06 19:17 ` Evans Winner
2008-08-06 20:37   ` M.T
2008-08-07  5:09     ` Tim X
2008-08-07 14:34       ` Xah
2008-08-07 15:17         ` Cor Gest
2008-08-07 16:50           ` Xah
2008-08-07 17:14             ` M.T
2008-08-07 18:32               ` Xah
2008-08-07 18:07             ` Evans Winner
2008-08-08 12:20               ` Xah
2008-08-08 15:15                 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-08 15:39                   ` Xah
2008-08-08 19:00                     ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-09 19:18                       ` Xah
2008-08-11 14:52                         ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-11 15:49                           ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-11 19:09                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-11 19:27                               ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-08-11 19:50                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-11 19:31                               ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-11 19:52                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-11 20:14                                   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-12 19:12                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-12 19:22                                       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-12 19:27                                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-08-11 20:20                                   ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-08-11 16:03                           ` Xah
     [not found]                           ` <mailman.16376.1218469770.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-11 16:32                             ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-11 16:52                               ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-08 15:42                   ` Cor Gest
2008-08-07 18:12             ` Cor Gest
2008-08-08  4:59         ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2008-08-08  5:54         ` Tim X
2008-08-08 13:11           ` Xah
2008-08-08 14:56             ` Phil Carmody
2008-08-08 15:42               ` Xah
2008-08-08 17:06                 ` Phil Carmody
2008-08-08 17:22                   ` Xah
2008-08-08 18:24                     ` Cor Gest
2008-08-09 19:41                       ` Xah
2008-08-09 21:03                         ` Cor Gest
2008-08-09 22:23                           ` Xah
2008-08-11  5:03                             ` Charles philip Chan
     [not found]                             ` <mailman.16348.1218431146.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-11  5:44                               ` Xah
2008-08-11  7:30                                 ` Charles philip Chan
     [not found]                                 ` <mailman.16351.1218439913.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-11  8:16                                   ` Xah
2008-08-08 22:15                     ` Phil Carmody
2008-08-09 10:16                       ` Xah
2008-08-09 13:19                         ` Sean Sieger
     [not found]                         ` <mailman.16182.1218288014.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-09 14:19                           ` Xah
2008-08-10  9:52                         ` Phil Carmody
2008-08-10 17:28                           ` Xah
2008-08-08 15:19             ` Tim X
2008-08-08 17:14               ` Xah
2008-08-09  9:55                 ` Tim X
     [not found]         ` <mailman.16065.1218171579.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-08 12:35           ` Xah
2008-08-09  5:54             ` qingant
2008-08-09  8:13               ` Phil Carmody
2008-08-09 14:34         ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-08-06 22:21 ` Jashy

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