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In article <DAVIDM.93Jan10225930@consilium.com> davidm@consilium.com (David S. Masterson) writes:
>Rich text is going to make it very hard for these people to read the news.  Is
>anyone considering this (ie. is rich text still readable if you don't have a
>rich text reader)?

Well, what's the problem with a dialup?  If you have a decent terminal,
your newsreader will display richtext formatted for the terminal.  There's
nothing that says you need a windowing system to use MIME and richtext.
(At least I hope there isn't, since we've been using it on MS-DOS.)

Minimum-level richtext processing can just do word wrap and strip the other
formatting codes.  Obviously, doing some sort of bold/underline/centering
is really nice, but you could read richtext, in its strip-the-codes form,
on an ADM-3A.

Of course, there's also the issue of human readability.  You can read rich-
text, even without stripping the codes.  It's not the greatest, but it's also
not illegible.  Keep in mind that most letters/articles don't use too much
fancy formatting, so there won't be too many richtext codes for your brain
to process.

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