[95513] in RedHat Linux List
Re: V-Cards O-F-F Please!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\))
Mon Oct 19 08:23:31 1998
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 13:23:51 +0100
From: "Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)" <argathin@iname.com>
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Tim Daigle writes:
> "If you want me to read what you have to say, please make it easy for me."
>
> Wow! sometimes this list is a paradox. We use Linux, a fairly complex
> operating system that requires a certain level of technical prowess to use.
> We criticise M$ for dumbing things down too much. But we still use Pine and
> complain when we get emails with v-card info and HTML ... and then go to
> the extreme and request that all mail be in acsii. Huh...
<rant>
In my opinion, people who use the likes of pine, mutt, elm, etc.pp. mostly
do have a good reason to do so - and that reason more often than not is
*ease of use* (yes, all of the above can be easy to use and even intuitive,
if you're used to that style of working!). Heck, I'm using mutt, and mutt
*does* support html (with lynx), v-cards (with external Perl filter),
ms-tnef (external C-filter) and all that rubbish, but I have *yet* to see
*one* mail that actually got "enhanced" by using all that crap. What I
*have* seen were html mails with triple the size of the original mail,
ms-tnef mails with 17 times (1.7KB as opposed to 100bytes!!!) the size of
the original mail - and with no change in content. (On that note: v-cards
are by far the most harmless offenders, as they are only small text
attachments. They're still obsolete, IMHO).
I still think that anybody who needs to revert to rtf, html or the likes to
make a point should consider whether simply refomulating the
sentence/paragraph in plain English (German, Dutch, Irish, Kisuhaeli,
<insert appropriate language here>) wouldn't go a lot further...
A completely different point is the fact that most M$ and N$ mail programs
default to that crappy behaviour without informing the user about the
consequences (e.g. bloat-ware mails...). I won't start on that one now...
:-/
</rant>
Thomas
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