Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 14:20:43 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Chris Knipe <savage@savage.za.org> Cc: FreeBSD - <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mailing List Etiquette was freebsd vs. netbsd Message-ID: <20200616142043.7d599458.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <CA%2B4TWFtgaMkJWAOuvEpSg2TOo2hrG-P7EHJUigCQwgQw3iXtWQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <20200613154409.GA89618@neutralgood.org> <13115.1592302784@segfault.tristatelogic.com> <20200616071153.00006f4d@seibercom.net> <CA%2B4TWFuWN1BV=FftC1xNCYRgqwX%2BCb=wMg_L9MxFHx17Nzjm5Q@mail.gmail.com> <20200616075548.000066f1@seibercom.net> <20200616140416.bd7b8bf2.freebsd@edvax.de> <CA%2B4TWFtgaMkJWAOuvEpSg2TOo2hrG-P7EHJUigCQwgQw3iXtWQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 14:11:46 +0200, Chris Knipe wrote: > > > > > > While this is true in general, one should always keep in > > mind not to confuse change with improvement: "newer" does > > not magically imply "better", so educated human judgement > > is always welcome. > > > > That is your opinion, and you're entitled to it. Frankly, I am -very- > happy we have moved past 76 character width limitations, [...] This I can definitely agree with - advancement in time _and_ improvement. While it doesn't mean anything technical for the message to have short or long text lines, it's the MUAs task to present them to the user in a way that the user wishes. Remember it never was a limitation: you could send mails with long lines from the beginning, it was a _suggestion_ due to terminal width and addition of quoting levels (see term "comb quotes" for possible unwanted results). > [...] and text based > emails with crappy fonts. I don't understand this. It's rather the other way round when you have HTML-based emails that force a specific unreadable font face and font size, and your MUA cannot be configured for a bigger minimum font size. In text mails, it's the _MUA's_ responsibility to offer the best font that the user (!) desires; in text-based MUAs, this responsibility is moved to the terminal emulator. Luckily, both GUI MUAs and terminals today offer you to change the font to whatever you want - and this option has been there for decades. This is, in my opinion, not a problem with the mail (being text), but wuth the MUA (using unusable fonts and settings). Fonts are not a matter of normal text email. They _can_ be a problem with HTML email. (I won't discuss in how far a mail client is supposed to contain a HTML rendering engine, epsecially in the absence of normal multipart "text _and_ HTML" mail generation.) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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