On Friday, 25th February 2011 at 16:51:16 (GMT -0500 EST), Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
if someone thinks i have "zero credibility", why would they continue reading my posts?
You're dodging the real questions repeatedly put to you, Bowerbird. So, please answer: 1) Why, as the only contributor to this mailing list, do you insist on submitting your posts in heavy, convoluted, superfluous, non-standard HTML mark-up? You, the proponent of the lightest possible mark-up of e-texts ?!?! Why do you ignore the decades old standard for online discussions -- plain-text? 2) Why do you (apparently) use inferior AOL email software that destroys the proper threading of discussions in this mailing list? Look at your shiny new iPhone & iPad and see the mess created by your posts (and your posts only) in this mailing list, due to your posts' inability to thread properly. Why would a software programmer of all people hold on to inferior email software? And AOL software of all -- the butt of most Internet jokes about clueless newbies? What does that suggest about a person's expertise in other software areas, such as e-text conversion? 3) Why would you give preference, in testing your e-book converter, to the format *least* suited for e-books (PDF), which is on its irreversible decline and way out, thanks to devices such as the Kindles, iPad, iPhone, all of which favour free-flowing text that disregards all outdated, purely fictitious paper-page dimensions? PS: If you look at my next-to-last post, Bowerbird, you'll see I also praised you for your obstinacy. And I said -- in the post's Subject line! -- that you have zero credibility as of *right now*, due to the 3 issues just summarised for you once again above. Once you resolve the 3 issues summarised above, your credibility will shoot sky-high! :-) -- Yours, Alex. www.aboq.org [processed by "The Bat!", Version 4.2.10.12]