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Re: Faux Pas -- web publication in proprietary formats at ietf.org

2005-11-08 11:28:34
Hallam-Baker, Phillip writes:

Because they are your customers.

The reader/author relationship is only very rarely comparable to
the customer/vendor relationship.  For many authors, money is not that
important.

No, the author can not possibly know the needs of the reader.

The reader can pick what he needs and ignore what he doesn't.  That's
not the author's job.

Once you add the headers and footers you no longer have plain text, you
have ASCII text in a device dependent markup.

Upon what device does it depend?

Enough people get it wrong to cause me problems reading their
documents.

They don't know what they're doing.  Blame the workman, not the tools.



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