Subject: Re: archives:Di Maggio or Dostoyevsky
From: Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Date: Mon Oct 02 2000 - 21:17:22 GMT
At 6:48 PM -0400 on 10/2/2000, Jake wrote:
> Mostly, though not completely off topic, I call for a total ban on all
> smiley punctuation faces.
Interestingly, the online "salon" called echo (www.echonyc.com, and
also the subject of the book, Cyberville) has a very serious ban on
smilies, enforced by peer pressure. People who use smilies get the
most incredibly harsh treatment.
> everybody is talking about. We are reading Plato's Republic. I would
> underline the title, but I can't figure out how to on this.
Don't feel bad about this. There is no standard for this kind of
formatting in e-mail, which is traditionally limited to alphanumeric
characters. Some mailers can send "rich" content (where the text is
formatted in a fancy manner), but that is not so good, because the
majority of the mailers out here are still unable to read such mail.
Hence, the lack of formatting tools, including fonts, text
characteristics, and so forth.
(When one sends such mail to the list, it comes through in HTML, not
a pretty picture and not useful to most of us -- I myself throw such
messages directly in the trash, because I typically use a Unix mailer
that only displays text, not HTML.)
Cheers!
--tim
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