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Posted by Michelle Steiner on 10/04/83 11:36
In article <o0Ruf.97192$J11.2088828@wagner.videotron.net>,
NRen2k5 <napsterneorenegade@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Huh? In text applications, the user has to type those characters.
> > The standard is to use underscores because with typewriters, the
> > standard was to underscore text that a typesetter would italicize.
>
> As we've already discussed, you misunderstand what italicizing is.
No, we haven't discussed it, nor do I misunderstand what italicizing is.
> Thanks for that bit of trivia, though.
It's not trivia; it's the explanation of standards.
Here's a bit of trivia: Shortly after computers and printers capable of
printing italics came out, some authors started to submit manuscripts
using italics instead of underlining to show what should be italicized.
Their publishers asked them not to do it because it confused the
typesetters, who had spent decades seeing only underlines for italics,
and never seeing italics themselves, in the manuscripts.
> > Do you really know what top posting is? If you did, you wouldn't
> > have made such an asinine statement.
>
> Ah. Now I see.
>
> (You've been so quick to chatise me for it but nobody has told me
> what it is. I thought it was something like "post pumping". Okay, so
> now I understand it means typing above the quoted text.)
Considering that it's been in use as a standard term for at least a
decade, and you're so hot on standards, why should we have thought that
you wouldn't know what it means?
> A few of you don't like it? Good for you. I don't get complaints on
> any other groups I post to.
Maybe you should stick to those groups in that case.
> I do things the way I think is best, not your way. If you can show me
> why my way is /inherently bad/, I'll change my way.
How about because very few people here like it, and if you continue to
do it, you'll wind up in a lot of kill files? (You do know what a kill
file is, don't you? Seeing as how you didn't know what top posting is,
I thought I'd better ask, especially since someone once told me that
he's reporting me to the police because I said that I was putting him in
a kill file.)
> > HTML is not a standard for usenet.\
>
> It wasn't in the beginning. But you know what - We're not in 1979
> anymore!
It still is, even in 2006.
> > But your message comes through loud and clear: "I'll do whatever I
> > want, and the hell with everyone else."
>
> I do /what I think is right./
As I said, "the hell with everyone else."
> You tell me that what I'm doing is wrong, and don't give me any
> explanation. I just have to believe that /you're/ the one being
> stubborn.
If I were the only one telling you that, that might be true; however,
you have many people telling you the same thing.
There are more news readers that do not handle HTML messaging than there
are that do. There are more people using those news readers than there
are people who use those that do handle HTML.
Therefore, when you post an HTML message, most people will either see
the raw HTML code and not be able to read your messages, or they will
see messages without the formatting. The former will probably
eventually kill file you--in any event, they will not be reading your
messages. The latter won't see the formatting anyway, so there's no
need to include it for them.
Oh, by the way, your italicizing text (I assume that what you meant by
using those slashes.) is typographically wrong. If you had meant to
emphasize, you should have bold faced them. Check any book on
typography to see when italics are appropriate. (Essentially, they're
used for prologues, epilogues, titles of books, magazines, movies, etc.,
and the names of ships, aircraft, spaceships, etc., and for not much, if
anything, else.)
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