Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/10/30/11:45:26
Nicolas Blais wrote:
>
> Uhmm, why don't we ban 1999 cars too? I mean, that old, very old 1985
> works just great. Okay, I admit it it's not as good looking as the 1999
> one, but hey, changes are bad! How many people would rather have a
> 1999? Now how many people would rather have HTML formatting? Same
> people. (Geez, text in 1998, how low have _they_ sunk?)
>
> Yep, I think I made my opinion. (No harm intended)
The purpose of posting is communication. The fact is that that many
newsreaders are not capable of handling HTML. The correct analogy
should be "would you rather have a new car of the 1985-type that can go
everywhere, or a 1999 car which breaks down as soon as it leaves the
Autobahn?"
>
> DJ Delorie wrote:
> >
> > You know, I could reconfigure my gateway and listserver to reject
> > mail/postings of type text/html or multipart/alternative...
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