[lbo-talk] the latest skirmish in the sexpositivity wars

[ravi]

At around 10/1/07 11:12 pm, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> On 1/10/07, queer dewd formerly known as ( ) <bitch at pulpculture.org> wrote:
>> At 09:30 PM 1/10/2007, Carrol Cox wrote:
>> >ravi wrote:
>> > > At around 10/1/07 1:00 pm, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > <blockquote>
>> > >
>> > > Yoshie, using an HTML tag such as the above (blockquote) does not
>> > > necessarily render your message as expected (with the quoted text
>> > > marked up in some way,
>> >
>> >FOR HEAVENS SAKE -- WE DON'T WANT IT MARKED UP THE <blockquote> is
>> >perfectly clear and does not clutter up the list with marked text.
>
> <blockquote></blockquote> wasn't meant to indent the text inbetween
> but simply to signal a quotation.  In none of the mail programs I've
> used <blockquote> plays any mischief, and it seems to show up in the
> archive all right.  But if Ravi prefers another way for some reason,
> I'd be happy to oblige.
>

Will you guys stop screwing with me!!! ;-) Carrol, I didn't say I want
it marked up (have you missed the 100 odd messages from me pleading for
plain text, in the past?). I said that adding HTML tags does not mark up
the text up necessarily in a reader. I assume someone would add HTML
tags in the hope of their being rendered. Little did I realise that
Yoshie actually considers HTML human readable markup! Yoshie, my point
is not that the <blockquote> causes mischief, but that it doesn't
accomplish anything. For a layperson, it doesn't serve visually to
demarcate the quoted text and further confuses him/her since its some
sort of terse technical gobbledygook [sp?] in the midst of a message. Of
course that's just my opinion. If you agree that:

==== begin quoted text ==================
quoted text
==== end quoted =========================

is more readable than:

<blockquote>quoted text</blockquote>

then yes, please do oblige me by switching to the former or any of the
other recommended formats. If not, it's not, as they say in these here
USA, "a biggie".

	--ravi