On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:15 PM, nishandh M <[email protected]> wrote: > "Why differential emphasis of text?" : (these are known facts, but needs to > be elaborated, owing to the solid NO-RTF/HTML cry in the posts): > > When we make a post considering an extended range of readers,(from the busy > contributors to --especially-- the newbie user) , we may have to expand a > lot. A long post is not preferred in Mailing List, and giving some emphasis > to relevant part of it makes it easier for the busy men. > > Ways to asssert emphasis to parts of text: > make Bold, Italics, connect with underscore, alter colour, give highlight > etc
*bold* /italics/ _underline_ -- this much stuff would be enough for a mailing list i suppose. This ain't a love letter to be colorful. [snip] > > Now if some people want to use Stone age software to read the communications > which exploits possibility of 21st century protocols and compliant > softwares, it absolutely OK for them to. [i havent had a single drop of 21st > century allopathic medicine in my blood stream for some 6 years] Everybody > has the right to adopt their ways and declare it, but no right to force it. DONT YOU DARE call my phone stone age.Though it is a low-end nokia phone.It _definitely_ compliant to the '''21st century protocols'''. forgot to say BOLD TEXT is supposed to be shouting. > Crying out to stop RTF/HTML as such would be a bad idea. Some days ago, > 'Kerala Farmer' conducted a survey in this Mailing List, which had 'bold's > in it. It attracted no irritation to bold_italics_underlines. Because its > beautifully done,unlike my ways of RTFing. We can see some very productive > improvements made to increase the survey's user friendliness there. -- Srihari K -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
