Re: discouraged by .docx was Re: Plagued by PPTX again

2011-11-28 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 06:12:42PM +0100, Julian Reschke wrote: What's important is that things that *should* work well on small displays, such a reflowing prose paragraphs, and re-pagination, do so. This is where text/plain fails big (and HTML does not). That's more of an attribute of the

Re: discouraged by .docx was Re: Plagued by PPTX again

2011-11-28 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 09:03:02PM +0100, Julian Reschke wrote: No, it just shows that our format has been optimized for a use case which almost nobody cares about anymore. Perhaps because no one actually reads RFC's on these small devices, and so we've been trolled by a master into worrying

Re: discouraged by .docx was Re: Plagued by PPTX again

2011-11-26 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 08:52:20PM +, Yaakov Stein wrote: ASCII is already unreadable on many popular devices and in a few years will be no better than old versions of word. I am referring to the fact that more and more people are reading documents on cell-phones and other small

Re: My Internet experience in the West at times is comparable to female foeticide

2011-06-22 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 01:59:49PM +0100, Dave Cridland wrote: On Wed Jun 22 09:59:14 2011, Krishna Birth wrote: Swlug (South Wales) has banned my posting to it's Linux group, You were banned there because your posts were (very) off-topic, you're not local to South Wales, and finally because

Re: SDO vs academic conference, was poster sessions

2011-01-11 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:24:37PM +0100, Alessandro Vesely wrote: My ignorance of IETF's inner functioning is so deep that I cannot even tell what is the equivalent of a mentoring professor or a sponsoring organization within the IETF, let alone finding one. As an Internet user, I may have a

Re: IETF Logo Wear

2010-08-20 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 09:32:35AM -0700, Philip Nesser wrote: IIRC the phrase started out as IP over Everthing back in the days when there was still competing network protocols and we were writing standards for IP over Infiniband, IP over IEEE blah, etc since there were competing protocols

Re: Question - Can DNSSEC be operated in a manner which meets Khaled mandates?

2010-07-22 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:56:00PM -0700, todd glassey wrote: Folks - there is a Court Ruling from the 4th Appellate District which is turning off Red Light Camera's everywhere and there is a question as to whether that ruling would also effect how Secure DNS Services are run and if so what