[ros-dev] PowerPC arcitecture?

Fri Jun 10 02:02:12 CEST 2005

If you look at the message is was sent in both plain text and HTML format

Quandary wrote:

>On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 12:03:48PM -0500, Rick
>Langschultz wrote:
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>>I use Outlook XP to compose mail to my boss and to a
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>support team. I
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>>have to use HTML formatting in my mail messages.
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>Sorry for the
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>>inconvenience I have caused. If people want to get
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>picky about the mail
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>>format and not the content of the message, they
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>should re-evaluate their
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>>purposes involved in developing code, and material
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>for computers.
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>If you've ever tried to read an XML/HTML message in a
>plain-text reader
>(such as mutt, which is my client of choice), you
>would understand why
>folks complain.
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>To draw an analogy as to how silly your claim is (that
>the formatting
>should be ignored completely), consider the following
>scenarios:
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>1. A huge C program that works, but has no comments
>and obfuscated code.
>   "If you can't understand it without comments, you
>should re-evaluate
>   your programming ability."
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>2. A patch that has thousands of formatting changes
>intermixed with
>   bugfixes.
>   "If you can't appreciate the functionality of a
>freely offered patch
>   that seems to fix a bug, you should re-evaluate
>your stance as a
>   community-based project."
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>3. Documentation provided in rendered PS (or another
>opaque format).
>   "If you can't appreciate the accuracy and
>user-friendliness of the
>   documentation, you should re-evaluate your position
>on having a
>   well-documented system."
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>See, these are all silly. It's easy for one side to
>just ignore the
>other -- yes, you may need whatever formatting HTML
>provides you for
>work correspondence; it's easy for you to forget that
>it's even there.
>Likewise, it's easy for those of us who edit and send
>raw text to ignore
>how engrained HTML can be in some mail front-ends. But
>at the end of the
>day, the lowest common denominator is plain-text --
>and that's something
>folks will expect you to conform to.
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>Just like a patch with a thousand formatting changes,
>now matter how
>many bugs it fixes, it will be rejected. So to with
>your mails -- no
>matter how good the merit is, if we have to mind-parse
>the gibberish,
>it's just going to be outright rejected.
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>Thanks for understanding,
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>-- Travis
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>>Rick Langschultz
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: ros-dev-bounces at reactos.com
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>[mailto:ros-dev-bounces at reactos.com]
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>>On Behalf Of Mike Nordell
>>Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 9:19 AM
>>To: ReactOS Development List
>>Subject: Re: [ros-dev] PowerPC arcitecture?
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>>Rick Langschultz wrote:
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>xmlns:o=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" =
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>>>xmlns:w=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"
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>>[lots and lots of useless XML tags mixed in an
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>unholy cesspool with HTTP
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>>snipped]
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>>Could you please trim that crap? I am, as I hope the
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>majority of list
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>>subscribers are too, not especially interested in
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>that you wrote an
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>>e-mail
>>in MSWord and that your "SpellingState" is "Clean".
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>>Please use plain-text only.
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>>Thank you for your cooperation.
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>>/Mike
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