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Frankly, I don’t know if I’m posting in html. Am I ?
Alberto.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Little [mailto:xxxxx@Broadstor.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 1:53 PM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] RE: Should NTDEV REJECT postings in HTML?
Damn … There IS a way we can shut Alberto up!!! BAN HTML!!!
Gary G. Little
Broadband Storage, Inc.
xxxxx@broadstor.com
xxxxx@inland.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Moreira, Alberto [mailto:xxxxx@compuware.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 10:43 AM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] RE: Should NTDEV REJECT postings in HTML?
I’ll ask again: what are the problems ? All it takes is to use a reader=
that
can handle it. The whole world’s on html. Many people read email with t=
heir
web browsers anyway. Even the Pegasus I use at home, a freebie, asks me=
politely if I want to look at an incoming email in html when it gets on=
e.
So, what’s the issue ? Or maybe we driver writers are supposed to be
technology-impaired when it comes to user level comfort and friendlines=
s ?
As I see it, “ban” is too strong a word. I, for example, run on an
html-enabled reader, and I don’t want to bother to figure out whether o=
r
not
an email happens to use html - to me, it makes no difference. Likewise=
, I
don’t want to have to care what format my email program puts out when I=
send
it - if it is html, tough, those who can’t handle it can just ditch it =
in
the nearest trash can. This is the twenty first century, eh ? The old
Compuserve DOS days over 2400 baud modems are long gone.
Alberto.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gregory G. Dyess [mailto:xxxxx@pdq.net]
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 1:26 PM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] RE: Should NTDEV REJECT postings in HTML?
Are you trying to ask a question and get it answered? Or are you tryin=
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show off how unreadable you can make your question and response? HTML =
has
WAY too few benefits to justify its WAY too many problems. Ban it or s=
trip
it.
Greg
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
> [mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com]On Behalf Of Moreira, Alberto
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 12:11 PM
> To: NT Developers Interest List
> Subject: [ntdev] RE: Should NTDEV REJECT postings in HTML?
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>
> I must ask, why to ban html ? Except for people running html-disabled=
> readers, I don’t see any other reason, but then, do we really want to=
go
> back to DOS ? And what do you know, we use C++ for kernel
> development too,
> and we build our drivers on the MSVC shell. Part of being a
> developer is to
> evolve as new technologies are available !
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>
> Alberto.
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregory G. Dyess [mailto:xxxxx@pdq.net]
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 12:12 PM
> To: NT Developers Interest List
> Subject: [ntdev] RE: Should NTDEV REJECT postings in HTML?
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> HTML? Wipe them out. Wipe them ALL out! (Oops, wrong topic.)
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> What’s important here? Is it the content of the question/response or=
> someone creativity with arbitrary color choices? Does all this
> nonsense add
> anything to the communications? I think not. It’s not an issue of o=
ld
vs
> new but rather does HTML’s capabilities add enough to overcome its ma=
ny
> problems. Again, I think not. When the issues of security come
> into play,
> there is no more room for discussion of any kind on the matter.
>
> It’s time to end this pointless debate and ban HTML entirely from thi=
s
> KERNEL-ORIENTED email list. If this were a graphics arts-related
> list, then
> I could see this conversation continueing.
>
> I vote for an outright BAN: Reject all HTML messages. Period. No mo=
re
> discussion.
>
> Greg
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