From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can anybody tell me how to send HTML-format mail in gnus Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:15:24 +0300 Message-ID: References: <489B75F8.1040405@freenet.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218183460 20416 80.91.229.12 (8 Aug 2008 08:17:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 08:17:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 08 10:18:31 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KRNB8-0002PP-TC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:18:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59174 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KRNAD-0007IB-3w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:17:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KRN9r-0007HW-IM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:17:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KRN9q-0007H4-0Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:17:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50913 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KRN9p-0007H1-SG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:17:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout4.012.net.il ([84.95.2.10]:46265) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KRN9q-0003xh-5V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:17:10 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.211.50]) by i_mtaout4.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0K5900K2DWA3MZ50@i_mtaout4.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:15:40 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <489B75F8.1040405@freenet.de> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:56285 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:23:52 +0200 > From: Emmett Grogan > > 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.