On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:53 AM, Gerhard Fiedler
<lists@connectionbrazil.com> wrote:
>> What REALLY bugs me is that in this day and age, with all the extra
>> "markup language" that lets me tell you that this part of the email
>> is 7bit ascii, Helvetica 11 point font, etc, etc, is ... WHY ISN'T
>> THERE A MARKUP VARIABLE THAT LETS ME TELL YOU WHERE
>> MY TABSTOPS ARE!?
>
> It's simple: In HTML with CSS (currently probably the most common
> formatting markup), you just don't use tabs; they're not part of the
> language (AFAIK) -- you'd use other means to achieve the effect. In
> plain text email, you don't use any markup -- that's the whole
> (remaining) point of plain text email.
>

And till this day and age, the prevailing mailing list protocol is
still to use plain text and not HTML/RTF/etc. Therefore those fancy
markups do not really work for mailing lists ;-)

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