Bhargav Bhatt wrote:
Next LUG meet: 11 Oct 2003 around 4 pm - VJTI Mech Dept
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 09:25:42PM +0530, Saswata Banerjee & Associates wrote: [snip]
With an attitude like that, Linux will remain a geek's OS and stay confined to the sidelines of comuting history. If you want to see Linux grow, it needs more users and support from users. That will not happen till you are willing to tollerate so called "1000 idiots" and help them become something more than just idiots, make them better users.
Using text-based email doesn't make anyone a geek. At the same time, using GUI based HTML email doesn't make anyone a newbie. I vote for blocking HTML for the simple reason that it's not too hard to deal with and the advantages, that others on the list have so ably described, are not insignificant. At my university, we have virtually everyone using pine in the administrative offices. Using pine is a brain-dead job and I've succesfully got people, using computers for the first time when they're 40, to use pine. If people can cope with pine, navigating through a few options in their favorite email program shouldn't be hard.
Not directly related to this topic, but still relavent :
I use a Palm m130 PDA. It comes with a software called "Palm Email". It is a software on the Palm OS that syncs with the outloook / outlook express and other popular windows email clients and puts the emails on the PDA so that I can read and reply when travelling. The interesting thing here is that being a PDA and therefore living with low resources, it has only text based emails support. However, that does not make my html mails unreadable. What the software does is to read the html tags, converts it into a relavent text format.
Surely there must be such functions already available for text based email clients in linux also.
Regards Saswata