From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 28 2000 - 13:02:07 CST
John Stanley <stanley@peak.org> writes:
> No. Change it so neither is encouraged or permitted. There are already
> common practice methods of emphasizing text, suggesting that people make
> their text unreadable as a means of emphasizing it is foolish and
> counterproductive. It is also not common practice -- I've seen it once
> in the last five years.
I believe the intention was that this be mentioned solely as documentation
for why backspace is allowed in article bodies. I definitely don't think
the practice should be recommended or encouraged. Perhaps moving the
whole thing into a note would be best? Sort of a "here's why backspace is
allowed, although this isn't really recommended" thing.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>