-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello R�mi!
On 6 Dec 2001 at 11:30:25 you wrote: > Who uses DOS these days? Please, that's history! Me, sometimes. > One more reason for the free caret to go. Ask normal e-mail users out > there (i.e. not militant batters) what they would prefer and you'll > see. "Normal" users open attachments by default automatically, infecting their computers with malware sending out infected messages to users in their AB. "Normal" users send out HTML mail when it is not necessary (we've seen quite a few lately on list). "Normal" users sometimes don't even know how to switch on their computers - don't laugh at me, I've seen quite a few of them, particularly in advertising agencies, which in Germany mostly use the Macintosh system! "Normal" users gave us VB, Hearts, much too big Web sites with flashing (both meanings), seizure giving colour "schemes" and porn banners with stupid MP3 audio. "Normal" users use IE instead of Opera, OE instead of The Bat! and Agent (news), comfortable stupidity instead of their minds. BTW, what *is* a "normal" user? > First, who needs tables in an e-mail? So we don't need tables, but we need HTML and non-free-caret editor? On which basis? Whose needs define what TB! has to incorporate, yours, mine, John Doe's? Does this argument apply to TB! only or to anything (IOW, is it specific or general)? > Second, if you really need to create a table (once in a blue moon) > you can use the spacebar. don't you think that TB!'s editor is much more comfortable to create a table? Yes, it is, just try it. > Third, you can be almost certain that a table created with TB will > look awful to the recipient since 90% of all e-mail users have > e-mail clients that use proportional fonts. That was my point and > you have no answer to that. Actually we don't have to answer this. It is simply not a even a well-formed argument. If everybody is (forced) to do what the majority does, we will run into trouble sooner not later. One effect would be that all e-mail clients would be like OE. But if they are all the same, it's all the same. Where is the need for anything other (which is not "other") than OE in this case. I always liked the way this principle is used by French politicians in Brussels (concerning, for instance, French cheese). > TB will never become a serious alternative to major e-mail > clients if its developpers don't look at what people need in the *real > world*, as opposed to a dedicated "fan club", which is what this > mailing list sometimes appears to be. TB's editor is the only one of > its kind. Can it be that TB is right and all the others wrong? Highly > unlikely. Where to begin ... TB! is "serious", others may not be. The *real world* is much more complicated than computer users seem to think. The complete argument you present here is brought upon every programme that is not as the most widely used one. The last few weeks it was big on various Opera lists - it is wrong there, and here, too. See above for an explanation. To answer your last question concerning the editor: Yes - for its purpose. Have never wondered why things you do one way are done another by most people you meet? We drive differently (on an individual basis), we like different TV programmes, we eat different things ... Sometimes there exists a majority (even a great one) but that has often much to do with "the best way", just with habits. Is it better to drive left-handed or right-handed? Neither, it's a historical fact that most of the world uses right-handed driving and only some countries (former British Colonies and affiliates) use left-handed driving. No inherent moral, no inherent benefits, just history.* *If you are interested in this argument, I recommend reading at least one of Stephen Jay Gould's collections of his essays. - -- Dierk Haasis http://www.Write4U.de http://Interest.Write4U.de/pongo PGP keys available: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=SendMyPGPkeys The Bat 1.54 Beta/14 on Windows 95 4.0 67306684 C Why is the man who invests all your hard earned money called a "broker"? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8ckt Comment: Privacy is the core element to Freedom! iQA/AwUBPA9OYfTo1oA8g8dLEQITqQCgizsygc8K1w6g7E7r4x1G944Y1e8AoLqq FbiKKhzVGC2FLMKuJc1Pm1Qd =E3rr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ________________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
