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: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 08:42:48 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <8250972e-1886-4021-80bc-376e34881c80@v39g2000pro.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> 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 1218213656 10110 80.91.229.12 (8 Aug 2008 16:40:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 16:40:56 +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 18:41:44 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 1KRV1v-0001Rx-8L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:41:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45762 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KRV0z-0002c1-L4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:40:33 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!v39g2000pro.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.97.120 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1218210169 25350 127.0.0.1 (8 Aug 2008 15:42:49 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 15:42:49 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v39g2000pro.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:160975 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:56321 Archived-At: 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 superior. You > >> can't just make a sweeping statement like that without actually defini= ng > >> what it is that e-mail is supposed to provide. As someone else pointed > >> out, an F16 is technically superior to a bicycle, but if allyou want t= o > >> do is go to the corner shop, that technical superiority is not only a > >> waste, but also a handicap. > > > HTML is simply technically superior. Sure, F15 is better than bicycle > > but ridiculous. However, HTML is better than plain text in email is > > not ridiculous. It is the standard the world uses by large, and people > > want rich text in email. Wikipedia says the support for html email 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? Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84