"Mike Schilling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Rich Teer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Mike Schilling wrote: > > > >> Another advantage is that evewry internet-enabled computer today > >> already comes with an HTML renderer (AKA browser), so that a > >> message saved to a file can be read very easily. > > > > I think you're missing the point: email and Usenet are, > > historically have been, and should always be, plain text mediums. > > Gosh, if you say they should be, there's no point trying to have an > intelligent discussion, is there?
Errm, isn't that what you're doing as well then? Rich just gave an opinion, you've been giving an opinion. Rich's opinion happens to have a lot of history and good reasons behind it. I don't see why it should be viewed as some kind of discussion ending dogmatism. Although it might not be bad if this discussion ended :-) Joe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list