From: Emanuel Brown (epbrown_at_enteract.com)
Date: Thu Jun 04 1998 - 19:26:30 EDT
On Thu, 04 Jun 1998 09:03:32 -0700, you wrote:
> at 09:34 PM, "David Ross" <ross_at_math.hawaii.edu> said:
>>Hopefully soon everyone online will enter the 90's and start using
>>mailers that can properly handle attachments and HTML. Meanwhile, I
>>entirely agree that
>
>I sincerely hope not.
I truly hope so, myself. I think some of the problems with HTML is
people think of a lot of those gosh-awful multimedia web pages when
they hear it. It's really just a text mark-up language, and if used
properly wouldn't require more than a few more characters' bandwidth
than plain ASCII does now. But it offer the option of using text
enhancements like bold-face and italics, and copyright emblems, or
typing in degrees and such. Used properly, it would make Usenet quite
a bit more expressive for very little bandwidth investment, and my
only wish for Agent is that it would recognize the tags. If it could
be implemented without the (over)use of binaries, I'd personally vote
in favor of it's adoption.
epbrown
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