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Chris Lawson wrote:

> No, he's a an SF (I hope not a sci-fi) buff who believes in the
> appropriate use of technology. Did he say that we should ban HTML? No.
> He said that HTML should stay of the Usenet, where it serves only to
> increase bandwidth demands without increasing the signal.

The same could be said of the web, surely if it comes to that. Nobody
really NEEDS pretty fonts and formatting but it sure does make things
nicer to read on a web page. I'm not a long-term usenet junkie so you'll
excuse me if I don't see the distinction.


> 
> Netscape and Explorer are crap newsreaders. 

to be fair, though, they're getting better. Communicator is superior to
all previous versions of Netscape in every regard.


> text is perfectly adequate for Usenet, takes up less space <snip>

Surey that's up to service providers to regulate, not users? I will give
you the fact that large ammounts of graphics etc is probably
unnecessary, but how do you differentiate between wasted space due to
the use of fonts and formatting and wasted space due to someone posting
200 lines of quotes and 20 lines of commentary? I could encode this
message for HTML and make it look pretty (if I could be bothered) and
still have it come out well under some of the sizes of some messages in
this group alone.

> 
> You seem to confuse HTML with all that's good about the Net. I love
> HTML, but only on the Web. I like Ferraris, but I wouldn't drive one
> across the Simpson Desert.

I would :)

> 
> regards,
> Chris

me, too P)

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