[oclug] UBB Fight

Piotr R. Sidorowicz prsidoro at mavericsolutions.ca
Mon Mar 21 11:41:23 EDT 2011


On 11-03-21 11:36 AM, Andy Civil wrote:
> On 2011-03-21 11:15 AM, Shawn H Corey wrote:
>>
>> I like plain text since it doesn't contain malware.  If you have HTML
>> email, then why not Javascript?  Why not Java?  Why not Flash?
>>
>> With palin text I know what I'm getting.
>
> That's the core of the problem, isn't it? I prefer plain text too; but if what
> was on offer were purely formatting tools such as bold, underline, font, colour,
> placement/justification, even tables and stuff like that, I wouldn't have a
> problem with it. But HTML is so much more.
>

Well then, maybe LaTeX markup would do?  ;)

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Piotr R. Sidorowicz


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