Antiquated Software

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 03:22:22AM -0500, Stanley Barnett wrote:
>    >>  AND  whatever you do, never, never post anything to the "List"  in
>    HTML hahahahaha.
> 
>    So, its that way here too...  Some time ago I sent an email to someone
>    on  this  list directly from one of the most useful tools I own... bar
>    none...  It is -It-Notes software.  This little 30 dollar program will
>    change your computing world...

It's that way on *all* mailing lists, Stan, and for very good reasons.

>    Anyway,  my  question  was  quickly  redirected  into  all the reasons
>    (bandwidth),  why  I  should  never send a bitmap in an email.  Heck I
>    have  never  sent  myself  one, so I had no idea that it was not being
>    sent  in text mode.  However, I sent one to myself to see exactly what
>    was  being  received,  and  quite honestly it got my attention, looked
>    great and was not boring.

To you.

This mailing list, even more than many, is populated by many
programmers who read their mail in a text terminal window (like me),
and also some people who are visually impaired and their computers read
it to them.

>    I'm  so  fortunate  that  my world consists of brilliant color, moving
>    scenes, emotions, smells and sounds.  And I, for one, will take all of
>    the  senses  my  computer  can  throw at me, as I see it as work being
>    enriched.   I  just  can't  image anyone choosing the old technologies
>    when  it  comes  to  this...

Imagine it.

Cheers,
-- jra
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