Message formats

From: Doug Yowza <yowza_at_yowza.com>
Date: Wed Jan 6 19:23:08 1999

On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Chuck McManis wrote:

> Ok, ok, so if you're using your Classic computers to read mail then I guess
> we should also switch to ALL UPPER CASE SO THAT TELETYPE OWNERS WON'T FEEL
> LEFT OUT.

No, the software handles the conversion for that fine a la Unix.

> Sheesh. Plain text really sucks. Y'all prefer that someone type _like this_
> to indicate a piece of underlined text? or my habit *bolding* with
> asterisks? This message "encoded" with HTML is roughly 5% larger than it is
> in plain text. Wow, now that's a waste of resources.

5% overhead for zero content enhancement? You want to put us on a
slippery slope, and pretty soon you'll start spewing GIF's at us.

> Sure, sure, some of you actually enjoy typing in ASCII art to illustrate
> something, I don't. Stick in a darn diagram.

See, I told you!

> Do you have a telephone in your house or a telegraph (and if you have a
> telegraph do you force everyone to "call you" on it rather than the
> telephone?)

But those things went over different channels! If you want to spew GIF's
at me over a differnt IP port, fine -- I'll put my HTML and GIF munger on
that port, but keep the stuff away from the SMTP port, will ya!?

-- Doug
Received on Wed Jan 06 1999 - 19:23:08 GMT