<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Florin Iucha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:florin@iucha.net">florin@iucha.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 10:05:10AM -0500, Robert Nesius wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Florin Iucha <<a href="mailto:florin@iucha.net">florin@iucha.net</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">> > > > On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 09:54:11AM -0500, Justin Krejci wrote:<br>
> > > > > Using HTML<br>
> > email<br>
> > > > is a<br>
> > > > > lot easier for people to communicate than plain.<br>
> > > ><br>
> > > Proof by contradiction:<br>
> > > Let it be easier to communicate in plain text than HTML.<br>
> > > Then everyone would want to communicate in plain text at all times.<br>
> > > Not all books or emails or newspapers are written in plain text.<br>
> > > In fact most aren't.<br>
> > > Therefore plain text is not easier.<br>
> ><br>
> > And people wear make-up and spend hours dressing up and combing their<br>
> > hair because it is easier than throwing on a sack?<br>
><br>
> That's a straw-man argument, and thus an invalid refutation.<br>
<br>
</div>I give you that is more pleasurable to for an artsy person to<br>
communicate by HTML where they can richly convey many nuances using<br>
text style and seamless inclusions of images and sound afforded by<br>
the medium. But it takes more work - it is not easier. It is more<br>
pleasurable for me (and Yaron) to manage my own web and e-mail server,<br>
but is not _easier_.<br></blockquote><div><br>I'll give you credit for stubbornly sticking to your guns but in truth you <br>are going through such elaborate and obtuse misdirections that you're <br>really arguing against yourself. <br>
<br>I'm not artsy and I find typeset text easier to read - it enhances <br>communication. I also find using WYSIWYG composers that <br>allow me to leverage type-setting functionality without programming<br>it by writing out the tags myself makes communication easier. <br>
Especially when I'm composing lists or imposing structure. <br><br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
I was asking about effective uses of HTML in current business<br>
correspondence, as opposed to fanciful (ornate signatures<br>
notwithstanding).<br></blockquote><div><br>You've been given more than enough proof points, and again are <br>engaging in strawman counter-tactics. People really have been <br>talking about business communication, not just signatures. <br>
<br>But that's okay. Watching you stubbornly cling to your position <br>is actually getting kind of amusing. "They said I could play my <br>music at a reasonable volume... and compose mails in plaintext...<br>
and that's my red stapler.... I'll burn the place down." <br><br>Cheers, <br><br>-Rob<br><br></div></div>