re: simple HTML list considered harmful

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From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: re: simple HTML list considered harmful
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 09:41:08 -0400 (EDT)
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> People want paragraph breaks and line breaks.  They may also want
> containers, but I see no reason to blur the two together when breaks
> are so intuitive and so frequently used in regular text handling
> systems.

I agree completely.  Conceptually the idea of making a break a container is
crazy.  It would make much more sense to have something like

<justify center>
Hi there
stuff here..
<p>
More blah
<justify flush>
<p>
And so you can see...

-Crh