On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 12:34:19PM +0100, Nicolas Brouard wrote:
> [...] the need of rich, structured, colored documents is real.
I strongly disagree with this. Oh, there's no doubt that many people
*want* to send all-singing all-dancing documents with multiple fonts
and colors and all kinds of formatting...but do they *need* to?
Having been on the receiving end of thousands of these, my observation
is that the documents which have had the most time lavished on their
appearance tend to be those with the least useful content, and vice versa.
In a perverse sort of way, this makes sense: someone who is trying to
decide between mauve and maroon for the subheaders is spending their
time on that instead of on proofreading, spellchecking, etc.
When (if?) we have a networked population which is capable of mastering
the rudiments of email communication, then I'll be happy to entertain
thoughts about "enhancing" it. But we are a long way off from that.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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