True enough. :{)} <div>On 11/14/05, Derek Broughton <<a href="mailto:news@pointerstop.ca">news@pointerstop.ca</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Sarangan Thuraisingham wrote: > > > Derek Broughton wrote: > >> [snip] > > >> <blatantOpinion>It shouldn't even _talk_ about as useless a >> security method as WEP.</blatantOpinion> >> > > [snip] > > OK, this is totally off topic. We just had a lecture about web services > and XML. In that, Colin Thorne of IBM (Hursley Labs, UK) mentioned that > one of the main reasons for the success of XML is that it is both > machine readable and human readable. He also mentioned that some XML > fanatics, use XML tagging even in day to day documents like e-mail. This > is the first time I am seeing it though. > > Good one Derek :D I wouldn't consider myself an XML fanatic - not even a frequent XML user/developer - but I certainly didn't invent this use of tags. I've seen email written with so many XML tags it's unreadable. It works only on the same scale as emoticons - too much and it's just noise. -- derek -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users"> http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- Carlton "Kermit" Noles ================== Qui tacet consentit---"he who remains silent consents" ================== Want your own GMail Account? Ask Me for an invite.