On 02/14/2009 05:34 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Mail Lists wrote: > That's what ASCII art is for. > > HTML ASCII Art > Works Yes Yes > Wastes bandwidth Yes No > > Where's the problem? > (1) we have to interract with _others_ in the world .. they are not using ascii art - I gave real examples, approving things, editing and circulating structured information with others including tables, colors etc ... who are using outlook, etc ... you cant seriously be in denial of what happens in the real world. (2) why would anyone want to fiddle with ascii art which on each reply has to be hand reformatted by hand ... and simple text has less information - such as bold red large letters to highlight .. or whatever ... (3) not sure why those that dont need structured email, seem to try and stop those that do from using it .. i am not suggesting you stop using text email. Telling us that text only is a viable replacement for structured mail is, frankly, silly. (4) the place most of use it are not bandwidth nor disk space constrained - internally high speed networks, or broadband - its just not an issue - and by the way, another common suggestion to avoid structured email is to use documents - which are way larger ... I am not saying there is not a place for text only mail - i am saying there is a place for both - its the real world - move on .. I'm not asking you to use it - I'm not even asking kmail to change - just answering the question why kmail is not very useful in the business world ... kmail has a place - since its functionality is limited it cannot work where that functionality is needed .. Glad you have no need for structured mail - I do. kmail is not functional enough for those of that do .. which is fine .. it serves a different need. So we use evo, outlook, thunderbird etc. gene -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
