21 May
2001
21 May
'01
10:10 a.m.
While I did laugh my ass off when I read this, it took me a while to
get to the actual text. 3826 bytes of embedded html/xml garbage to
transfer 350 bytes of text. God I love Microsoft.
-Dave McGuire
On May 21, Bob Stek wrote [useless html/xml garbage removed]:
After the RMA, RTMA and EIA published standards,
aother industry
association tried to make some sense of the various computer connectors.
The retiring president James McDonald of the Electronics Industry
Engineers' (EIE) tried unsuccessfully to promulgate yet another set of
standards for computer inter-connects. This was known as old McDonald's
EIE I/O.
21 May
21 May
10:34 a.m.
While I did laugh my ass off when I read this, it
took me a while to
get to the actual text. 3826 bytes of embedded html/xml garbage to
transfer 350 bytes of text. God I love Microsoft.
It didn't show up as HTML on Eudora and I generally keep HTML
display turned on.
Jeff
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12:52 p.m.
Dave McGuire skrev:
While I did laugh my ass off when I read this, it
took me a while to
get to the actual text. 3826 bytes of embedded html/xml garbage to
transfer 350 bytes of text. God I love Microsoft.
And I love people who use M$ software. There has always been abnormally bad
software, but never have there been so many using it.
--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are
going to start thinking you're from New York. :-)
--Larry Wall to Dan Bernstein in <10187(a)jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
9:16 p.m.
While I did laugh my ass off when I read this, it
took me a while to
get to the actual text. 3826 bytes of embedded html/xml garbage to
transfer 350 bytes of text. God I love Microsoft.
Plain text over here ... or did you turn on some wired preferences ?
Gruss
H.
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