I have to say that I agree with the original poster.  The technology is
there, and I for one make use of it.  The whole point is to communicate more
clearly and effectively.  If I can make my point more clearly with a graph,
I use it.  If I can make my point more effectively with big pink letters
that are italicized, I use them.

This isn't pandering to the MTV generation ... we were using graphs and
fonts long before TV was ever invented.  It's just using the most effective
means to communicate.

Bandwidth will become cheaper.  Disk space/CPU/memory already is cheaper.
Why limit yourself to technology that was designed to work around the
limitations of a teletype machine?

However, I am also bucking the majority, so feel to flame away :-)

--
Chris Anderson
Director, Technical Support
Unify Corporation


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Karagianis [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 1999 9:05 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Stopping HTML, and attachments? Never!
>
>
> But... but... that's just the problem.  You're the one dumbing things
> down.  Almost none of this wonderous new technology actually
> does anything
> for the intellectual content, but merely panders to the MTV
> generations
> inability to respond to a (non-comic) book.  I can forgive your
> generations preference of a pretty pie-chart over a simple percentage,
> but I don't accept your trying to tell me that your
> education-inflicted
> handicap is progress.  And you still haven't explained why the blind
> subscriber is of so little importance that maginalizing them further
> is inevitable and unavoidable.
>                                                 -Kary
>
>
> On 2 Feb 99, at 7:14, Stephen C. Nill, J.D. wrote:
>
> >The trends in connectivity and hardware -- even hand-me-downs --
> >are toward ever increasing power and bandwidth.  If we keep
> dumbing down
> >things, don't we take away the incentive for folks to upgrade?
>