Re: ATM Almost done polishing

["Richard F.L.R. Snashall" <rflrs@rcn.com>]

lifedata@vol.com wrote:

>>HTML is for our benefit not
>>for making troubles. Should we neglect positive development of Internet
>>protocols?
>>
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>We should positively neglect useless, wasteful and inane methods of
>sending text which triple the size of a message and give no advantage in
>the process.
>
>Jim L
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I'm not convinced.  A while back, someone replied to me, off line, in
html, giving some integral equations.  The text of the message was
quite easy to read; much easier than the ASCII conversion of the
same.  (Some day he'll have to teach me how he did it!).

But, I also agree that this could easily be abused with all sorts of
meaningless goop that would add nothing to the content.

                        Rick S.