I propose a new, potentially lengthy discussion topic for FRIAM: why,
and/or why not plain ASCII text email readers are/are not superior to html
readers.
Points awarded for verbosity.
Points detracted for succinctness.
You have been advised.
What are the points awarded/detracted for using
Bonus points for environmentally-friendly re-use of other people's rants,
Arlo.
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Arlo Barnes arlo.bar...@gmail.com wrote:
I propose a new, potentially lengthy discussion topic for FRIAM: why,
and/or why not plain ASCII text email readers are/are not superior
Although I must point out that our two ASCII emailers will never see this...
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.netwrote:
Bonus points for environmentally-friendly re-use of other people's rants,
Arlo.
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Arlo Barnes
On 03/16/2013 02:25 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
Although I must point out that our two ASCII emailers will never see this...
Actually, I did click on Arlo's links because I could _infer_ the
contents of the web pages by the URL, something I have trouble doing
with your URLs.
On Sat, Mar 16,
Heh, that was nice. I usually have my client set to view the bodies as
plain text... but I must have been trying to view some marketing crap
when I last used it, because I'd left it on view as html, which allowed
me to see the render. Personally, if everyone would use a fixed width
font, I
Orfrom Scientific WorkPlace and Apple Mail.The above is a graphic. Scientific WorkPlace can also generate MathML, so the following method also works when the mail allows HTML.Apple Mail seems not to.--BarryIf the graphic doesn't appear inline, then maybe it's time to upgrade.On Feb 3, 2013, at
On 2/1/13 7:25 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
Not convinced that HTML added anything useful ... Being able to
typeset maths in email _would_ be useful, but so far HTML has
completely failed at that problem. In the meantime, LaTeX encoding has
grown to fill the void...
Hmm, sounds like a
Two of them, actually.
http://things-linux.blogspot.com/2013/02/epic-fail.html
http://things-linux.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-natives-are-getting-restless.html
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Is there any chance you could post a little blurb to go with these links
so that we don't have to click the link in order to find out whether or
not we want[ed] to click the link?
I've been rick-rolled enough to avoid clicking links with no blurbs. 8^)
Douglas Roberts wrote at 02/01/2013 01:35
Well yes, but I'm afraid one, or at most two clicks are required. Here's
the procedure:
1) Click on the link (I know, you wanted to avoid that, but...)
2) Squint at just the first sentence or two. If
2) a. the article looks like something you might be interested in reading,
open your eyes more
/smartass-mode
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.netwrote:
Well yes, but I'm afraid one, or at most two clicks are required. Here's
the procedure:
1) Click on the link (I know, you wanted to avoid that, but...)
2) Squint at just the first sentence or two. If
Think of the people who do not read their email in a web browser. I'm
one of those, and I have my reasons (over and above just being a
curmudgeon, of course). The procedure here is:
1. copy the link,
2. start a text editor
3. paste it into a text editor,
4. remove spurious line feeds and
Wow. I had forgotten that I was on a mailing list populated by dinosaurs.
Thanks for reminding me. What do you use, Russ. Mutt? Or Pine? Or mail.
Or do you just do more on /var/spool/mail?
:)
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Russell Standish r.stand...@unsw.edu.auwrote:
Think of the people
Well, ok then: a synopsis: Google has by now pissed off enough people by
their lethargic, lackluster attention to serious bugs that were introduced
into Android by them (they own Android, of course the introduced the bugs,
duh) back in November last year.
What's the bid deal? wifi either
I can only imagine all the white-out carefully painted on your cathode ray
tube ascii terminals.
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.netwrote:
Well, ok then: a synopsis: Google has by now pissed off enough people by
their lethargic, lackluster attention to
On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 03:59:23PM -0700, Douglas Roberts wrote:
Wow. I had forgotten that I was on a mailing list populated by dinosaurs.
Thanks for reminding me. What do you use, Russ. Mutt? Or Pine? Or mail.
Or do you just do more on /var/spool/mail?
:)
I use mutt these days -
Of course, you might ask why I don't use the builtin email reader in
emacs. I don't have a real answer to that - habit perhaps?
Yeah, I used to do that. Back in the 80's
Why do people think reading email as text is dinosaurian?
Only because it is. But if it rox your sox, have at it!
Bravo! Pure text is pure joy.
The power users destroyed email by adding more and more unnecessary
stuff to it, feature upon feature. For a while the
incompatibilities between mail clients were absurd. Mime helped, and
alas, HTML even more.
I guess we should be happy that mail didn't grow to
On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 04:49:13PM -0700, Owen Densmore wrote:
Bravo! Pure text is pure joy.
The power users destroyed email by adding more and more unnecessary
stuff to it, feature upon feature. For a while the
incompatibilities between mail clients were absurd.
You mean like Outlook,
I upgraded to less about 10 years ago, it makes it easier to scroll
through my mail backwards, more or less, though I think these days
more is just an alias to less, more or less.
Wow. I had forgotten that I was on a mailing list populated by
dinosaurs. Thanks for reminding me. What do you
I propose a new, potentially lengthy discussion topic for FRIAM: why,
and/or why not plain ascii text email readers are/are not superior to html
readers.
Points awarded for verbosity.
Points detracted for succinctness.
You have been advised.
--Doug
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Steve
Doug -
I think I have you in a double bind, my early submission was a pretty
succinct but verbose bit of commentary worthy only of me. I'm guessing
my points cancel and I get a big fat zero?
- Steve
I propose a new, potentially lengthy discussion topic for FRIAM: why,
and/or why not plain
You know what, Steve? I can happily live with that!
Happy Weekend to you!
--Doug
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote:
Doug -
I think I have you in a double bind, my early submission was a pretty
succinct but verbose bit of commentary worthy only of me.
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