Helge Hielscher wrote:
> nospam wrote:
>
>> Mozilla makes *p* bold face. I don't want that! An implementor
>> shall never try to be smarter as possible. So I would like to
>> suggest to drop all the text interpretation stuff from the
>> news-reader/mailer. Any comments?
>
>
>
> No. This is an essential feature. All good mail and newsreaders have this.
>
> Turn it off if you dont like it.
I would like it, if it works. However, the formatting mechanism will
never be smart enough to know if the * means dereferencing a pointer,
a multiplication sign or simply a markup of boldface text. This is
what I dislike. By formatting *p* as boldface the newsreader claims
he has got a clue about what the author actually meant. He is, however,
totally clueless. Thus the news reading user is misguided by another
"fancy stuff" someone put into the software. So -- if at all -- we
shall make the message-text interpretation an opt-in feature and
not opt-out.
You may extend my argumentation to other "nifty" features like the
message quotation (">" -> something like "|"). For all of them I
have not even seen a requirement that explains their values to the
user.
>
> http://www.hmetzger.de/net6e.html#13
>
> BTW why is _underline_ disabled by default?
>
> Regards,
> Helge
>
