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 On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Wendell Piez <wapiez@wendellpiez.com> wrote:
The tool shapes the hand, and By the same token, form liberates. Â A political columnist (or blogger) has it easy compared to a columnist with the same deadlines who has to write about "something interesting". Â No day passes without its political issues to write about, but having to find a new topic every day to keep a diverse readership interested is no trivial demand. Â (I forget who said this.)
Standards are great, except when they're not. Indeed, the fluidity, ease, and grace of this conversation would be impossible without standards, a dozen of them at least: Â TCP/IP, various router procotols, DNS, SMTP, POP and/or IMAP and/or HTTP, RFC 5322 (formerly 822) headers, MIME, Unicode, HTML, and even Standard English.
And even when it is, a schema (most especially Sacred cows make the best hamburgers. Â GMail doesn't have rotating .sigs, but you can see mine at http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/signatures 
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