On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Florin Iucha <florin at iucha.net> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 10:05:10AM -0500, Robert Nesius wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Florin Iucha <florin at iucha.net> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 09:54:11AM -0500, Justin Krejci wrote: > > > > > > Using HTML > > > email > > > > > is a > > > > > > lot easier for people to communicate than plain. > > > > > > > > > Proof by contradiction: > > > > Let it be easier to communicate in plain text than HTML. > > > > Then everyone would want to communicate in plain text at all times. > > > > Not all books or emails or newspapers are written in plain text. > > > > In fact most aren't. > > > > Therefore plain text is not easier. > > > > > > And people wear make-up and spend hours dressing up and combing their > > > hair because it is easier than throwing on a sack? > > > > That's a straw-man argument, and thus an invalid refutation. > > I give you that is more pleasurable to for an artsy person to > communicate by HTML where they can richly convey many nuances using > text style and seamless inclusions of images and sound afforded by > the medium. But it takes more work - it is not easier. It is more > pleasurable for me (and Yaron) to manage my own web and e-mail server, > but is not _easier_. > I'll give you credit for stubbornly sticking to your guns but in truth you are going through such elaborate and obtuse misdirections that you're really arguing against yourself. I'm not artsy and I find typeset text easier to read - it enhances communication. I also find using WYSIWYG composers that allow me to leverage type-setting functionality without programming it by writing out the tags myself makes communication easier. Especially when I'm composing lists or imposing structure. > I was asking about effective uses of HTML in current business > correspondence, as opposed to fanciful (ornate signatures > notwithstanding). > You've been given more than enough proof points, and again are engaging in strawman counter-tactics. People really have been talking about business communication, not just signatures. But that's okay. Watching you stubbornly cling to your position is actually getting kind of amusing. "They said I could play my music at a reasonable volume... and compose mails in plaintext... and that's my red stapler.... I'll burn the place down." Cheers, -Rob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100702/55a14366/attachment.htm