| rmah | xand: do you think paining your walls is "wasteful"? do you think we should fire all graphic designers? |
| Limbic_Region | rmah - I almost entirely agree with you and I was wrong to switch gears without indicating I was mentally changing topics |
| action | somian stands back to back with rmah this time, in advocating an unpopular position |
| somian | stands back to back with rmah this time, in advocating an unpopular position |
| rmah | Limbic_Region: no sweat man |
| jpeg | rmah: it's a question of necessity. |
| rmah | jpeg: necessity?!??!!? |
| Limbic_Region | rmah - I personally trace all email related problems back to its origin |
| rmah | food and warmth are necessities. everything else is a luxury |
| xand | but html makes email *worse* |
| rmah | xand: I think it makes it better |
| xand | you think wrong! :P |
| rmah | because you can be more expressive with dimensions beyond plain text it's the same reason you don't print books with typewriters |
| xand | no it's not |
| rmah | yes it is |
| xand | that wouldn't be practical |
| rmah | sure it would |
| somian | xand, let me ask you this. do you only ever program using an editor without any syntax highlighting? |
| jpeg | man, that's got to be tedious to write email. |
| xand | type writers are too slow and poor quality |
| rmah | jpeg: I meant fixed-space fonts with no typesetting, or graphics |
| pav | i understand how matched groups in a regexp are assigned to $1, $2... variables... but if i run a search-and-replace regexp for all occurences, i can only get in $1, $2 the last matched expression right? so if it occured multiple times i can get only one (last) of those? |
| xand | somian: no, but I don't see how that's related |
| rmah | xand: then you make me sad |
| somian | xand: it's intimately related. |
| rmah | xand: most likely, you just "hate HTML email" because you think it's cool to be a luddite while involved in a high-tech field |
| xand | nope |
| rmah | so much of that sort of attitude these days it's freaky and weird |
| xand | I am freaky and weird... what's your point? :P |
| somian | xand: it's the same issue. there are certain aspects of human perceptual faculties that are the result of inborn neurological traits and there are those which are learned; in any case, different people process visual information (particularly textual) differently. |
| jpeg | I'll admit to that. All my friends admire me for using mutt. Seriously. I mention that I don't use HTML for email and the chicks come home with me. Because, you know, it's cool. |
| action | f00li5h rocks out to Ace Of Base's beautiful life |
| f00li5h | rocks out to Ace Of Base's beautiful life |
| rmah | jpeg: damn! |
| action | xand wishes it was the 1980s in terms of email |
| xand | wishes it was the 1980s in terms of email |
| jpeg | see what you're missing out on? all the cool kids use plain text. |
| mauke | I use kde's graphical mail client, and I still don't like html mail |