[Gllug] Email Formats

[David Damerell]

On Friday, 23 Nov 2001, Paul Brazier wrote:
>The point being: Why complain about the use of <em> or <strong> tags in
>emails when you use *asterisks* or _underscores_ in a logically
>identical way?

I don't think the opposition _is_ to the idea of having a very limited
set of logical markup tags; the sole deficiency of <em> and <strong>
is that they are not so readily parsed by humans - you can become
accustomed to them, but they take up a lot of space - so they would
demand that mail clients understand them in a way that conventional
emphasis does not.

I certainly would prefer a system of logical markup tags for
indicating paragraph breaks and quoting; unfortunately, we aren't
being offered that.

-- 
David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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