On 12/20/12 6:40 AM, Rob wrote: > Philip TAYLOR <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Ed Mullen wrote: >> >>> Amen. The last job I had was in 1996 and ALL email was HTML. Where are >>> you text-only people coming from? >> >> A world that recognises that it takes only 10 bytes to say "Thank you.", >> not 2500. > > The world today is no longer about bytes or kilobytes. > Today we calculate in megabytes, gigabytes or terabytes. > > People no longer treat mail as a novelty that can transfer messages > like a telex did in the past. They use it like a fax or letter. > That means mail includes mark-up, letterhead, vcard-like signatures, etc. > > I have no problem if you want to aleniate yourself from that world, > but it is the world that businesses and software operates in. >
You describe a world where fluff is more important than information. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
