Re: [gutvol-d] jeroen's even-handed analysis
In a message dated 10/20/2004 3:43:48 PM Mountain Standard Time, shalesller@writeme.com writes:
The principle of the greatest good for the greatest number doesn't mean let's throw out the lesser numbers.
How dare we be so provincial as to ignore the EBCDIC users. There's thousands of character sets in the world--what gives us the right to ignore the "lesser numbers" of non-ASCII users? Excuse me, I thought that was exactly what I said. Doesn't "doesn't mean let's throw out the lesser numbers" mean the same as "what gives us the right to ignore the lesser numbers"? I don't want to ignore anybody. And I'm crawling back into the woodwork. Every time I start posting I wind up in a flame war, which is the last thing on earth I want. Anne Egads. I'm crawling
Gutenberg9443@aol.com wrote:
And I'm crawling back into the woodwork. Every time I start posting I wind up in a flame war, which is the last thing on earth I want.
Anne
Come on back out, Anne. It's just that everyone gets so worked up when bowerbird is around that they start snapping at everything. Plus, each of us has his or her own little pet issues (for instance, mine is wanting a master document format ... David's is character set support and LYNX level browser support ... Jon loves his CSS markup). When our pet issues come up, sometimes we have trouble seeing the forest for the trees or realize the tone of our words. David and I have argued plenty of times on these subjects and probably will plenty of times more.... but when I stop to think about it, we actually agree on most things. We are just passionate and text communication doesn't always handle passion well. Anyways, no one is trying to chase you away. Please come back out to play! Josh
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