Jargons of Info Tech industry

[axel at white-eagle.invalid.uk]

In comp.lang.perl.misc Mike Schilling <mscottschilling at hotmail.com> wrote:
> "Denis Kasak" <denis.kasak at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:dem3hh$o9h$1 at news1.xnet.hr...
>> Mike Schilling wrote:

>>> I see a difference between "X would be useful for A, B, and C" and "Y 
>>> will always be the only proper way."

>>> Don't you?

>> Y would not be useful because of the bandwidth it consumes, the malware it 
>> would introduce, the additional time spent focusing on the format rather 
>> than quality of the content and, frankly, because it's useless.
 
> Threaded mail-readers too, screen-based editors , spell-checkers, all 
> useless frills.

All dependent on and only affecting the user who employs them. It
does not require other users to do anything.

It is none of my business whether you used vi, emacs, ed or whatever
to compose your message; whether you ran a spell checker over it;
or how you read messages and respond to them - perhaps you telnet'd
to the news server and made your transactions manually.

Axel