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Why do so many geeks insist that markup is good for web documents but not for e-mail? E-mails can benefit from headings, bulleted lists and tables just as much
by dingaling 9y ago
Why do so many geeks insist that markup is good for web documents but not for e-mail?
E-mails can benefit from headings, bulleted lists and tables just as much as a web page. It's all about communicating information in human-digestable format.
OR PERHAPS ALL EMAIL SHOULD BE SENT TELEGRAM STYLE WITHOUT PUNCTUATION SINCE THAT IS JUST A DISTRACTION STOP ALSO ONLY IN ASCII CAPS STOP
- pmlnr 9y agoWell structured text is both readable and has a very long life as it is. There are prime examples at textfiles.com, eg. http://textfiles.com/magazines/LOD/lod-1 http://textfiles.com/magazines/LOD/lod-1
- luxpir 9y agoAm also a ham, so not completely opposed to increased take-up of CW. Particularly in a global HF mesh network. I'm not actually opposed to markup at all, but you know exactly the kind of over-designed barf I'm talking about being happy not receiving. I can always open an email from a tmp file in the browser (by hitting <v> then <enter> in mutt) but in more than 9/10 cases that just isn't necessary. W3m renders an approximation of the html layout just fine.