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news AT garydjones DOT mailshell DOT com wrote:
> Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria AT salira DOT com> wrote:
>>news AT garydjones DOT mailshell DOT com wrote:
>>>Does that mean that we should all post in jpegs since we could then 
>>>achieve exactly the same thing?
>>That's an unreasonable stretch from html -> jpeg.
> Not at all. The presentation of binary images is "widely supported by GUI
> mail and news clients". You might have noted that this is a stupid
> argument.
But, it is unreasonably complex to search jpegs for textual content. 
Searching HTML is not much harder than plain text.



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