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On 23 January 2011 13:41, Joaquín Bustelo <jbust...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > Other advantages are more flexibility in formatting, abandoning kludges > like asterisking words or phrases [*blah blah blah*] for emphasis and so > on. But those are secondary or tertiary. These secondary and tertiary ones also contain potential problems with accessibility. For me being *sometimes* confined to a terminal falls under that broad category of accessibility. Ease off on the belittling parodies of 'super geek' purity - fact is, people read this list under a range of circumstances, chosen or otherwise, it is important to be able to understand this, which may involve stepping outside one's own particular circumstances and expectations. Yes there are advantages, but there's another side to the story which may tend towards excluding some people. Personally, my health has deteriorated over the last couple of years such that looking at a standard computer screen at length makes me sick. The more I am able to control the formatting as a *reader* (not a writer) the more I am able to lessen the suffering associated with it. To the extent that formatting is imposed on me arbitrarily by the author, there are barriers in the way of me making those adjustments to my own taste, or piping the content to some other less nauseating medium. Just one consideration among many of course, and it isn't an absolute question, but a matter relative convenience and inconvenience. It does sound like Joaquín Bustelo's blog would be a worthy piece of hypertext should such a blog come into being. -AA. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com