From: Xah <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Can anybody tell me how to send HTML-format mail in gnus
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 09:50:23 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f48ffe98-4acf-488f-a1c8-ff74382722c7@1g2000pre.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87k5esq2g2.fsf@atthis.clsnet.nl
Xah Lee wrote:
«
HTML in email is a very good thing.
...
Plain-Text Email Fetish
http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/plain_text.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_e-mail
»
On Aug 7, 8:17 am, Cor Gest <c...@clsnet.nl> wrote:
«That is utter CRAP, if you think that a message, dolled-up more than
a cathouse on X-mas'eve has more information than the same text in
ascii, you really ought to learn to read.»
well, HTML is technically superior simply because it can do a lot more
things.
In the mid 1990s, a lot tech geeker seriously think that the web
should remain in plain text or <pre>. They say exactly what you are
saying now. If you do research on newsgroup archive, i bet you can
still dig up lots of such arguments.
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
☄
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-07 16:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-05 16:44 Can anybody tell me how to send HTML-format mail in gnus 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 [this message]
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
[not found] ` <mailman.16396.1218482758.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-11 20:57 ` Emacs usability (was: Can anybody tell me how to send HTML-format mail in gnus) Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-11 22:14 ` Emacs usability Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-12 7:37 ` Emacs usability (was: Can anybody tell me how to send HTML-format mail in gnus) Xah
2008-08-12 14:14 ` Emacs usability Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-12 14:48 ` Xah
2008-08-12 14:55 ` Emacs usability (was: Can anybody tell me how to send HTML-format mail in gnus) Xah
2008-08-12 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.16413.1218492872.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-12 14:17 ` Emacs usability Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-11 16:03 ` Can anybody tell me how to send HTML-format mail in gnus 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
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-08-07 22:23 Emmett Grogan
2008-08-08 8:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-08 8:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] <mailman.16059.1218168664.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-08 13:17 ` Xah
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