On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Florin Iucha <florin at iucha.net> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 01:46:49PM -0500, Robert Nesius 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. > Pretty is one thing, art is another. I was asking for functional > differences that _improve_ communications. > Define "improve" and maybe we can see more clearly where the disconnect here is. But that said, you've been given several and if you're still not convinced than the issue is part semantics at best. -Rob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100702/cf8d351b/attachment.htm