On Saturday 26 September 2009 06:34:15 pm Graham Anderson wrote:
At this point I usually open up an application that's more suitable than an email client for creating documents that need some kind of formatting.
exactly. mailing lists meant to exchange words. it's a relic from usenet times, but not everything that was useful then has to be thrown overboard because something new has come up. you tend to focus more on what you say when you don't have to worry how it looks (that's how it works for me, at least).
I agree with Linda it is time to reconsider some of this.
yes, by using different mediums that are available now: blogs, audio and video podcasts, to exchange and discuss things that need this type of presentation.
Any personal HTML email I receive, that for any reason passes my spam filters, gets filtered straight to /dev/null.
i'm not going that far, because i communicate with many people who are lost in the glittering world of windows or apple. they don't care enough about technology to make an effort to learn something else. it works for them, and that's all they want to know. the geek part of me wants to dspise them for this, but i value many of these people in many other ways, so i can't do that. (if i had a geek-card i should probably turn it in now...) but this is a linux list, and naturally there's a large percentage of geeks around. moreover, it focuses (should focus) on technical matters, that don't require graphic presentation. (if they do, there's plenty of websites to park examples outside.) there are openSUSE forums at http://forums.opensuse.org/, allowing much more artistic freedom for posters, and thousands of other sites dealing with similar topics. if you can't live without this constitutionally guaranteed freedom, you should go there. it's only fair, though, to grant the maintainers and majorty of members on this list their (our) freedom to have a mailing list, not a multimedia forum. -- ys phani. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org