Fixed font v multiple fonts

avri avri at apocalypse.org
Tue Jul 8 09:03:58 CEST 2003


On tisdag, jul 8, 2003, at 03:24 Canada/Eastern, Pekka Savola wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, todd glassey wrote:
>> Word is the most common word process in use on the planet today, so by
>> eliminating it you not only constrain the people that use it as their
>> primary text formatting tool, but essentially add another hurdle to 
>> the
>> everyman's participating in the IETF.
>
> Is it useful for "everyman" to participate in the IETF?
>
> Killing bad ideas is difficult enough already.. ;-)
>

i personally do not wish to support the use of word at all,
and i believe one does not need word to produce ids.

i do support the notion that everyone should be enabled to
participate, including those who have barely moved over the
digital divide.  so i think a fair number of considerations must be
discussed in any attempt to change formats.

a.



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