On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 03:06:27PM -0500, Peter Davis wrote: > >First, how many of these results involve actual rigorous studies using > >the scientific method? > I don't know. Do you?
I don't need to know, I'm not using it to defend my point. If you think it's fine to use this to support your claims, without shouldering the burden of making some effort to examine the veracity of thier claims, then you have just officially become someone I need not pay any attention to ever again. Because it follows logically that nothing you say can be trusted, unless I take the time to verify all of your assertions myself. Which I have no intention of doing, > >The convention for e-mail is 72 characters. > No. That was the convention. Currently, I don't believe there is > one, "convention" in this case meaning the predominant or prevailing > practice. In my experience, it still is. Most clients still do this by default, and most people still adhere to it, and it's still the number which is most recommended. > >Yeah, I said exactly that in another message. Now generate HTML > >mail with Mutt. > Mutt lets you choose your own methods for editing outgoing mail, as > well as for displaying messages you're reading and other primary > functions. If you're not satisfied with your editor for sending HTML > messages, use another. This implies that the other would be equally satisfactory in every other way. I can assure you that is not the case, even ignoring any barriers to entry, like learning a full set of new key bindings, etc. > >Plus you still get a lot of folks -- many of whom use GUI clents > >-- who complain about HTML mail for any number of reasons. And at > >least a few of them are legitimately arguable concerns. [...] > There are potential privacy issues with HTML, but these can easily > be dealt with in most MUAs. Aside from that, George Dillon's other > "sins" are basically out-of-date or just wrong. Yeahhhhh... they're not. I'm on plenty of lists, and people complain about all of them. Why? Not for fun... it's because they actually cause them difficulties. For example, digested mailing lists. There are quite a few people who still use these. HTML mail is horrible for that. The reasons may not be valid *FOR YOU*, but they are perfectly valid. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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