Commodore 1541 on ebay for $8500.00 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

16 Jan 1999

On Jan 15, 20:37, jpero(a)cgocable.net wrote:
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  Subject: Re: Commodore 1541 on ebay for $8500.00
 Date sent:      	Fri, 15 Jan 1999 17:35:25 -0800
 Send reply to:  	classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
 From:           	"Zane H. Healy" &lt;healyzh(a)aracnet.com&gt;
 To:             	"Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
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  Subject:        	Re: Commodore 1541 on ebay for
$8500.00

 > Hey, that's impressive.  By default my e-mail program which can handle
this
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  > garbage displayed a blank screen.  Simply put
people, _PLEASE_ use plain
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  > text.  I'm quoting the garbage so you can see
the garbage you're sending.
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   34 lines of
crap for 1 line of message, that's MicroSlop for you.

 			Zane 

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  Now I don't waste on this and they get killed on
sight unread.

 Jason D. 
That's exactly what I do, and I suspect that many other readers do the
same.  It's not even good HTML -- with all those font and colour
requirements that many systems couldn't honour.  Like Zane, I use a mail
reader that can handle MIME, but it often fails on the bad HTML and/or
screwy MIME-types that some messages contain.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York