Re: org-export-select-tags

[suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
> suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:13 AM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >    o post an ECM to begin with - no ifs, ands or buts.
>> >    o post what you tested *exactly*.
>> >    o test what you (or somebody else) posted *exactly* as it was posted.
>>
>> A comment with regards to the above; from the experience in this thread
>> it seems posting an ECM is better done as a plain text attachment rather
>> than inline quoted regions. After all getting from inline quoted regions
>> to working examples require human intervention which, as we saw, is
>> prone to errors. ;)
>>
>
> If the human intervention is the problem, then I would advocate
> education, rather than attachments, as the solution: after all there is
> nothing that would stop that kind of intervention *after* the attachment
> has been saved. But in the face of more and more idiotic mail software
> out there that mangles messages irredeemably, I will reluctantly agree:
> I'm still old fashioned enough to prefer inline quoting, but I have been
> known to repost something as an attachment if the inline post gets
> mangled.
>

:) Nothing beats inline quotes when it comes to readability. But I guess
some of the modern GUI clients offer smooth viewing of text attachments.
e.g. I think in T-bird you can see the contents of a text attachment
separated from the email by a horizontal separator without actually
opening it.

However I also notice these clients often mess up the MIME types when
attaching something; this in turn screws up the archive and confuses
email clients on the receiving end[1].

Two examples of how not to do it:
1. <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/32038>
2. <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/32038/focus=32118>

> Nick
>

Footnotes:

[1] I believe I learnt about the importance of attachment MIME types
    from you Nick. ;)

-- 
Suvayu

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