On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 03:51:25PM +0200, Evan Leibovitch wrote: > Sheesh, sometimes in this list feel like I'm in a retirement home sitting > around a circle of people complaining about Elvis and self-serve elevators. > > "Real men don't use HTML email"?.... pfffft. Get over it.
I use mutt on one account for mailing lists. I do not deal with html content on that account. I use a gmail account for doing email with friends and websites/companies and such. I would not expect that to not use html and gmail handles that just fine. > These days email makes up but a fraction of my digital communications, and > most of that is either mailing lists, or Outlook/Exchange from work because > that's how they work .... Skype, Hangouts, SMS, and social media posts > enable immediate response and don't need aggressive spam filters. Not every > communications calls for the same tool. > > As for typing, give me a break. I can enter text on a screen without taking > my finger off the glass, (using the free Swiftkey kb) at least as fast as I > could ever do on a real keyboard (which was, honestly, never too fast to > start with). The innovations here are coming from mobile, not the end of an > RS-232 cable. I do remember a professor pointing out that the Mac GUI didn't make things easier, it just made things harder for those people that could use a CLI so they were at an equal level. > The only times where I really like a full keyboard and pointer is for > typing long documents, and creating things that require greater pointing > precision than the tip of my finger (which, in my case, mean a Cherry Brown > keyboard and trackball instead of mouse). But such creative work takes but > a fraction of my total time interfacing with computing devices. > > And as for "ooh, that's a CONSUMER device".... expressed in any field, > such an attitude does little but reveal elitist snobbery in the speaker. A > Samsung phone in the hands of a good photographer will produce more > desirable results than a dork with a Hasselblad. Yes a good tool does not make up for a bad user. But an expert can't make up for a bad tool either. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
