At 10:54 PM 6/13/98 -0500, you wrote:
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Name calling??? luddites??? That doesn't help.
Web documents created in html do a lot. They are important and they have
their place. IMO, they are the "eye-candy" of the Internet. They are what
catches people's attention and gets them interested in the Internet. Don't
confuse my term eye-candy with trivializing html documents or the content
they contain. HTML documents provide easy access to whatever information
you want. They are more or less long lived documents. This is a very
important feature of the Internet. But, what does a person do after they
have found the information that they searched for?
What keeps people interested in and using the Internet is e-mail. E-mail
mimics letter writing. It is plain text. There is no need for inline
images, different sized fonts and font attributes like bold, etc. Sure, in
a letter you can press harder on the pen/pencil, you can even switch to
colored pens/pencils, the point is that people don't do this in normal
letter writing. On the rare occasion when we need to, we do have the all
caps, etc.
Why not bring this capability to e-mail for those who want it? One good
reason is that we already know how to write.(no question about some better
than others) School taught us that. But to design hypertext documents
takes additional skills which most people don't posses. Adding the standard
html tags to all e-mail is really unnecessary.
I write e-mail all the time and I don't feel the need for changing the text.
But, I may be wrong. I've seen a number of people add "tags" to their
e-mail when they feel the need to. They do it by typing the <bold> tags
</bold> directly into the e-mail and letting the <italic>person
<</italic>figure it out. <On soapbox> This allows people to create tags
that more precisely describe their meanings and to create new ones when the
people feel the need. </On Soapbox> Of course, I the pseudo-tags that I
included in this e-mail didn't add anything to the content of the message.
I wanted to make the point that they really aren't needed, but that when
they are, there is a way to do it without bloating our e-mail and e-mail
clients.
Now, lets get back to linux and RedHat.
Mark
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