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Article #1460Re: I'll be Posting the entire People database in RTF next week
From: Garance A. Drosehn
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 21:42
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 21:42
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In article <1992Apr12.122458.5337@next32.isnet.com>
dstrout@next32.isnet.com (Dave Strout) writes:
> IMHO the problem is one of philosophy, not technology. The NeXT allows
> you do things that the rest of the world can't keep up with.
I agree there is a problem of philosophy. I think rich-text posts are neat,
but it seems pretty silly to advocate posting rich text just to aggravate
people. This is supposed to be an information resource, not a war zone.
Inflamming peoples passions "just because you can" seems like a pretty poor
philosophy.
If there's a good reason to use richtext posts, use them and ignore the
flack. If there's no good reason to use them (and in many of the posts I've
seen there has been no good reason for RTF), then don't use it just to anger
people.
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Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!usenet From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) Subject: Re: I'll be Posting the entire People database in RTF next week Message-ID: <s18tjaa@rpi.edu> Nntp-Posting-Host: eclipse.its.rpi.edu References: <1992Apr12.122458.5337@next32.isnet.com> Distribution: usa Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 21:42:30 GMT Lines: 23