6 Feb
2000
6 Feb
'00
5:43 a.m.
Hi Sean,
> Sheesh. Plain text really sucks. Y'all prefer
that someone type _like
>this_ to indicate a piece of underlined text? or my habit *bolding* with
>asterisks? This message "encoded" with HTML is roughly 5% larger than it
>is in plain text. Wow, now that's a waste of resources.
Where did this quote come from? I've not seen this message, is my ISP losing
mail for me again? :-(
And to whoever actually wrote the above, where on earth did you get that
figure of 5% from? HTML encoded messages are pretty much *100%* bigger than
plain text messages - such messages contain TWO copies of the text, one in
plain ASCII, one in HTML.
Oh, and _YES_ I *personally* prefer the use of "_" and "*" to
emphasise
text....
TTFN - Pete.
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