Re: HTML in newsgroups.

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From: Marc Roger
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1997 00:00

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On 5 Feb 1997 20:23:05 GMT, in news:<01bc139b$4cf64d80$14148cc3@ivo>,
Ivo De Broeck <stim@tornado.be> wrote in be.commercial,be.comp,be.comp.internet,
be.misc,nl.markt,nl.misc:
>Bedoel je dat iedereen moet (blijven) werken met newsreaders die geen html
>kunnen lezen? Kan je me uitleggen waarom. (misschien interessanter dan het
>probleem van kromme bananen?)

HTML doesn't bring any added value to Netnews, it just makes
messages unusefully longer than they ought to, and nearly
unreadable by newsreaders compliant to the standard (care
to read them).   

Netnews is meant as a way to exchange textual messages, 
implementing funny, non-standardized, unnecessary extensions 
that, in the end, causes your messages to be unreadable 
doesn't make sense.

HTML (as QP encoding) just doesn't belong here. Keep It Out.

Check the thread on news.software.readers on the same 
subject.

-- 
Marc Roger

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