Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:14:45 GMT, Roedy Green
<my_email_is_posted_on_my_website@munged.invalid> wrote:

>On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:32:09 -0500, l v <lv@aol.com> wrote or quoted :
>
>>I think e-mail should be text only.
>
>I disagree. Your problem is spam, not HTML. Spam is associated with
>HTML and people have in Pavlovian fashion come to hate HTML.
>
>But HTML is not the problem!
>
>That is like hating all choirs because televangelists use them.
>
>HTML allows properly aligned table, diagrams, images, use of
>colour/fonts to encode speakers. emphasis, hyperlinks.

None of which I want in email. If you're writing a book, write a book,
and either provide a link or attachment.
>
>I try to explain Java each day both on my website on the plaintext
>only newsgroups. It is so much easier to get my point across in HTML.
>
>Program listings are much more readable on my website.

My copy of javac seems to prefer plain text, and so do I ;-)

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Al Balmer
Balmer Consulting
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