6 Jan
1999
6 Jan
'99
11:23 a.m.
On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Chuck McManis wrote:
Ok, ok, so if you're using your Classic computers
to read mail then I guess
we should also switch to ALL UPPER CASE SO THAT TELETYPE OWNERS WON'T FEEL
LEFT OUT.
No, the software handles the conversion for that fine a la Unix.
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.
5% overhead for zero content enhancement? You want to put us on a
slippery slope, and pretty soon you'll start spewing GIF's at us.
Sure, sure, some of you actually enjoy typing in ASCII
art to illustrate
something, I don't. Stick in a darn diagram.
See, I told you!
Do you have a telephone in your house or a telegraph
(and if you have a
telegraph do you force everyone to "call you" on it rather than the
telephone?)
But those things went over different channels! If you want to spew GIF's
at me over a differnt IP port, fine -- I'll put my HTML and GIF munger on
that port, but keep the stuff away from the SMTP port, will ya!?
-- Doug