oops sorry i forgot to do a spell check before posting. please read the line
"the mailing list practices have been in place in last 2 last as far as i know and those rule hold still true in todays environment as well" as "the mailing list practices have been in place for last 2 decades as far as i know and those rule hold still true in todays environment as well." won't happen again Bipin On May 16, 7:54 pm, bipin kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > forgive me if i am wrong. isn't this discussion thread attempting to > reinventing the wheel? the mailing list practices have been in place > in last 2 last as far as i know and those rule hold still true in > todays environment as well. further standardizing mailing list > practices is not the primary objective of this group. hence is there > any significance in continuing this thread? better we put our energy > in doing other constructive things in the area of open source > > Bipin > > On May 16, 7:03 pm, Srihari k <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > 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 > > visithttp://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 > > -- > "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 > visithttp://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 -- "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
