[openbeos] Re: Clipboard format standards for video and audio

On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 21:32 +0300, Ville Koskinen wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 11:03:55 -0700
> "Jorge G. Mare (a.k.a. Koki)" <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > - Copy part of a sound/video clip and paste it into an email
> 
> OT and rant, sorry, but this is plain evil. The e-mail system was never
> intended to transfer big non-text payloads, and encouraging behaviour
> like this (by making it trivial to do from the user point of view) would
> only make it worse. :-)

It was just an example; change the "paste it into an email" to "paste it
into an XXX client, where XXX can be an instant messenger, IRC, etc.

Does that sound less evil now? :-)

Koki

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