Re: Replying to posts

[Steve Downes]

I cannot understand why anybody uses html (except their software point
them at it) I decided 20 years ago when word processors were coming in
with various formats that I would always use plain text unless there
was a strong reason not to because:-

1) it took less storage
2) it travelled faster
3) any recipient can open it & read it in any reasonable software
4) it doesn't go out of date due to format change

Nearly every email I receive gains nothing from being formatted HTML or word 
processor of some sort.

Steve

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 12:43:13PM +0100, Chris Yate wrote:
> On 27 April 2016 at 19:25, Anthonys Lists <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > And the reality is, most people HERE, including the most important ones! 
> > use simple, plain-text, email clients.
> > There's a reason why Outlook Lusers are not welcome on most mailing lists, 
> > and that's because the result is incomprehensible, pretty fast!
> >
> > Why is it that you get so many idiots who think that "ooh, shiny" is the 
> > same as "new, improved".
> > Lilypond is not aimed at the "ooh shiny" brigade, so if you want to be part 
> > of that, please go somewhere else ...
> 
> Respectfully, I disagree. Having a shiny AND functional tool (no smut
> here, I'm British) is perfectly possible, and wanting to use one
> doesn't make you a magpie. It's snobbery -- you might say 'inverted'
> snobbery -- to suggest so.
> 
> "Shiny" isn't necessarily "improved" but they're not mutually
> exclusive. Would you suggest Frescobaldi is *not* a big improvement in
> the User Interface for Lilypond development?
> 
> Chris
> 
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