In as much as Mr. Wotan accepts mail from "special" people only, I'm
forced to reply to the group.
Wotan wrote:
On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Jim De Arras wrote:
The world is changing, paragraph breaks are replacing line breaks.
Proportional font readers allow more screen density, when fed by
paragraph breaks, rather than line breaks, and are therefore more
efficent "netiquette" changes with the times. If you cannot adapt,
don't whine.
Wow, you are using Mozilla and such for e-mail. People who care what
others think of their messages take the time to configure such agents to
conform with the common standard. They don't tell others to conform to
their desires.
I didn't tell anyone anything. I expressed my opinion and preferences.
Text based readers turn your examples of the future into a hard to
(read|respond to) mess. Which many people jsut delete, unread.
Fine for them. Many folks resisted the automobile, too. They thought
the horse was just fine. Your fixed-point text readers are doomed to
extinction.
My reader(s) can read both styles, without hassle.
Your reader(s) also do html via mail, and probably support sending styles
as well. Two things that are an excellant example of why we need
procmail. So we can filter out unreadable mail.
So you can remain in the past.
Just because Bill Gates has declared the old ways to be non-conformint
with what he likes does not make his way any good.
This has nothing to do with Mr. Gates. He has slowed, in fact, the
world's transistion back to proportional fonts and bit-mapped screens.
Mac, NeXT, Sun all did it first.
Particularly when you consider that a large portion of the world does not
have the software needed to view this crap.
Your true colors? Once again, I see folks trying to place a stick in
time, and trying to force the rest of the world to stay back, too. Let
me guess: You prefer a Unix Shell to any GUI?
Even useers of Dos and 3.1 do
not have the ability to read everything Bill says should be in e-mail now.
Again, this fixation on Mr. Gates. NetScape, which I am using at the
moment, has NO roots in Microsoft.
And it's available for 3.1.
But not for diehard UNIX shell hacks. (I was one, I managed to adapt.)
Jim