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Re: Can anybody tell me how to send HTML-format mail in gnus


From: Cor Gest
Subject: Re: Can anybody tell me how to send HTML-format mail in gnus
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:42:33 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux)

Some entity, AKA Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>,
wrote this mindboggling stuff:
(selectively-snipped-or-not-p)

> On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 05:20:23 -0700 (PDT) Xah <xahlee@gmail.com> wrote: 
>
> X> Emacs is not a commercial app, so there's not much survival
> X> pressure. It simply got dwindling users, more and more esoteric
> X> “elite” tech geekers.
>
> So Emacs users are losing weight?
>
> Seriously, have some perspective.  Emacs has been around since before
> many of us were born.  It's always been aimed at people who can read a
> manual.  That's a very exclusive club if you look at people in general.

Yeah, I really am unaware of any commerce-driven survival of the
fittest pressure withstanding fully user-adaptable application that is
still around and kicking after about a quarter of a century, which
incidentally is about long enough to Read The Fine Manual.
And we all know about those commercial manuals , don't we ...

Cor
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