Re: Tuits in 6-packs

On or around Tue, 4 Oct 2005 16:59:25 +0100, Sena
<arjfatcymoeddorguk@xxxxxxxxxxx> enlightened us thusly:

>rlb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx said...
>>
>> Sorry, but that's just not true. Yes, if you want your program to
>> display all posts in 48-point blinking Comic Sans, that's your business.
>> When, however, the way you set up your news or mail client breaks the
>> RFCs for Usenet and/or e-mail, that is not right; and when that breakage
>> causes aggro for other netizens, that is simply wrong (as well as
>> anti-social). And when a news client is set up that way _by default_, as
>> Outhouse is, that is very wrong indeed.
>
>I disagree. Most computer users neither know nor care about RFCs and
>have never heard of them. Moreover, we were not talking about Usenet,
>but email. People all over the world use email without understanding in
>the least what they are doing. It's only a problem to people like
>yourself, who have decided that everyone should do things the same way,
>because that's the way you like it.

yebbut, what about the people who send me email in html-only, and expect me
to reply?

I have to fire up a browser to find out what they want to say, and sometimes
ICBA. 's not as if they're trying to send me an embedded photo or someting,
they're sending a bit of text, and because the computer came with distressed
outhouse, they just go ahead and use that without bothering to think about
whether their pearls of wisdom can be read at the other end.

Granted, that's mostly not their fault. It's the fault of people selling
PCs without taking enough care to set 'em up sensibly. Ditto the thing
about the way OE spreads virii around the world.
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
"Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right
is to be none the less free than you were before."
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180), from Meditations, VIII.16
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