On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 11:03:12AM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 10:14:22AM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

[...]

> > only become aware of that when you try to live at the rift.
> 
> Yes, this is something we should keep in mind.  IMHO the medium should
> remain a mailing list and this should be clear.  Top posting is
> useless and undesirable with both e-mail and forums though, I believe.
> 
> Since I use mutt too, I think plain text compatibility is important.

See? There lies the problem. I'm firmly in your "camp", and still I
learnt to realise that the other "cultures" do have as difficult a
time to adapt to "our" camp as the other way around.

That's why I believe that we need serious thinking (beyond the "easy"
technical things) and lots of tolerance.

To me, Wikipedia is a wonderful inspirational example for a web site
which succeds in bridging an astonishly broad swath of those "cultures"
(and still doesn't cover all of them, it has a distinct academic and
"liberal", in the broadest sense, "smell" to it).

> As for the formatting, I think for plain text e-mail compatibility,
> when there are stars around a word, it should *not* be highlighted as
> italic.

Uh -- isn't the star reserved for *strong*? ;-)

Cheers
-- tomás