On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 12:07:06AM +0200, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
Michael S. Hart wrote:
In many ways complainers have not evolved past Medieval Times.
Here we go again. Blaming your customers is still cheaper than fixing your bugs.
Between David Widger & Al Haines, thousands of older text only titles were updated and HTML added. Nearly all new titles come with text and HTML. Many, many bugs were fixed. Some people might characterize the lack of HTML as a bug. The discussion thread had turned to different ways of identifying paragraph breaks in plain text. As Marcello rightly points out, it's tough to do automatically with complete accuracy (though many methods can produce less than complete accuracy). Nobody has argued that text is the master format, or should be. Or that it is somehow richer, or preserves more of the original formatting. There are some advantages...there are many limitations. PG's reasons for an emphasis on including plain text, if feasible, are well documented. One of the first responses in this thread pointed this out. I've adjusted the Subject line in my response, for people who want to talk about why text sux, among themselves. If there's enough interest, I can set up a separate mailing list for you. I won't be joining, however. -- Greg