From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can anybody tell me how to send HTML-format mail in gnus Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 03:16:43 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <6ab018a6-eae5-4aa7-bc5b-a6df9c9fcaa1@i24g2000prf.googlegroups.com> References: <877iav5s49.fsf@163.com> <86hc9yc5sj.fsf@timbral.net> <877iat7udd.fsf@163.com> <87fxphcsxi.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> <8504ddd4-5e3b-4ed5-bf77-aa9cce81b59a@1g2000pre.googlegroups.com> <87k5es59we.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> <63c824e3-62b1-4a93-8fa8-2813e1f9397f@v13g2000pro.googlegroups.com> <874p5vsgg8.fsf@nonospaz.fatphil.org> <8250972e-1886-4021-80bc-376e34881c80@v39g2000pro.googlegroups.com> <87zlnnqvvs.fsf@nonospaz.fatphil.org> <57add0e0-b39d-4c71-8d2c-d3b9ddfaa1a9@1g2000pre.googlegroups.com> <87vdybqhl6.fsf@nonospaz.fatphil.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218278581 27106 80.91.229.12 (9 Aug 2008 10:43:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 10:43:01 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 09 12:43:52 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 1KRlvL-0008V8-7V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:43:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49171 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KRluP-0007pF-5I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Aug 2008 06:42:53 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!i24g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 81 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.97.120 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1218277003 28830 127.0.0.1 (9 Aug 2008 10:16:43 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 10:16:43 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i24g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.97.120; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.22, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:161003 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:56349 Archived-At: On Aug 8, 3:15 pm, Phil Carmody wrote: > Xah writes: > > On Aug 8, 10:06 am, Phil Carmody > > wrote: > >>Xah writes: > >> > On Aug 8, 7:56 am, Phil Carmody > >> > wrote: > >> >>Xah writes: > >> >> > On Aug 7, 10:54 pm, Tim X wrote: > >> >> >> I disagree with your suggestion that HTML is technically superio= r. You > >> >> >> can't just make a sweeping statement like that without actually = defining > >> >> >> what it is that e-mail is supposed to provide. As someone else p= ointed > >> >> >> out, an F16 is technically superior to a bicycle, but if allyou = want to > >> >> >> do is go to the corner shop, that technical superiority is not o= nly a > >> >> >> waste, but also a handicap. > > >> >> > HTML is simply technically superior. Sure, F15 is better than bic= ycle > >> >> > but ridiculous. However, HTML is better than plain text in email = is > >> >> > not ridiculous. It is the standard the world uses by large, and p= eople > >> >> > want rich text in email. Wikipedia says the support for html emai= l in > >> >> > email programs is 97%. > > >> >> An utterly spurious statistic. Support for Finnish emails in > >> >> email programs is probably closer to 100% than 97%, but that > >> >> doesn't mean that everyone should be or wants to be using > >> >> Finnish. > > >> > Ok. You used analogy to refute my reason. What is your real argument > >> > that the ability to send/receive html formatted mail in emacs is not= a > >> > good thing? > > >> You are aparently too dense to see my real argument in > >> the above, so there's little point in me putting forward > >> a real argument on a different point. The incentive to > >> play along with your trolling really isn't that great. > > > Let me be direct and honest. I don't see your point, and i was very > > matter of fact, and asked what is your explicit reason for your > > argument. > > You don't just not see my point, you are unable to understand > what point I was addressing. Read, reread, and reread again. > Eventually you may work out that the point I am addressing is > your flawed argumentation style. (It says logical fallacy all > over it, but I can't recall precisely what its common name would > be at this time of night.) > > > Now you are calling me troll. It's ok. I'm used to it. No hard > > feelings ok? > > Pity's not a hard feeling, so no hard feelings. > > > O, about your F15 vs bicycle analogy. > > I give up. You're painfully dense. it's no use keep saying others are dense. You have to give reasons. You gave none. I gave reasons on how your F15 analogy is incorrect. I also asked what's is your argument for your Finnish emails analogy. And i explained that analogy by themselves doesn't work as a valid reasoning. Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84