David wrote:
> Subject: Re: Toby Lipman - how do you do that?
> From: "David & Stella Tyers" <[log in to unmask]>
> If members of a list of this size have such strong & differing views about
> their own E-mail clients & formats - what hope for uniformity (or even
> compatibility) within the "New NHS"?
>
> David Tyers
We must separate 'uniformity' from 'compatibility'.
In this context 'compatibility' means (roughly) that all of us can
exchange messages with anyone else on the list, and that each of us
can (roughly) decide what it was the sender meant. We are fairly
close to that already.
Again in this context 'uniformity' means (roughly) that when we
exchange messages, what the recipient sees is what the recipient
sent. We are a long way from that, but in any case I question the
need for it. There may be very good reasons why I elect not to
display what you sent in a format identical to what you saw when you
sent it; at the lowest sort of level, I might be colour-blind, and
decide to display what you saw as different colours, as different
sizes of type. There may well be lumps of what you sent that I know
I am not interested in, and decide to suppress; at its most extreme
of course, this leads to mail filtering.
Briefly, we MUST have compatibility; we must OPPOSE uniformity.
Mike Wells
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