Re: HTML message...

"Andrew Hood" <and...@hotmail.com> wrote:


> This is an HTML message, sorry people. I know that this is
> ***Naughty*** but what the $$$?

Hmm... You just earned a nice cosy place in my scorefile, but what the
fuck?

> There seem to be two obvious advantages to HTML postings... Colour,

Oh, great! Bullshit in Red on Blue... Gotta love it... 

> and the guarantee that the end-user sees your ascii in the Font = that
> you created it in. 

Granting the "end-user" has the same fonts installed... And uses a
"Newsreader" that is the same as (or at least very similar to) yours.
Apart from that *HTML* isn't meant to be a typesetting language,
either. It's for structuring text. What the text actually looks like is
*entirely* up to the interpreting program. For all the HTML-Standard
cares, it could end up as audio-Output, or dots on a braille-reader...

> Many compatibility disadvantages, though, I
> guess...

Nice way of putting "Hey everyone use a crappy Newsreader - I do! So why
shouldn't anyone else?"

> What percentage of you see this ASCII correctly? Please
> e-mail me "yes" or
> "no" at:  <mailto:and...@yahoo.com>

Post here, read here. I dont, for one (sure, if I'd load it into Gnus I
might, but I prefer Pan for aaa)

> I will collate the replies and
> post the answer... If needs be, should we create an

Do feel free to da that, but who should care, really?

> "alt.htmlascii-art"

Leave out the ascii. On the other hand: HTML really doesn't have a
place in usenet. But what the fuck. If you *need* it - go ahead.

[snipped half a ton of unneccesary "html"]

Hmph. And then theres people who are actually *wondering* why usenet is
getting so slow...

Thanks for wasting a ton of bandwidth...

Well, nevermind. Just my pet nuisance ("HTML"-postings)
EOD & F'up2 /me, cause it's off-topic and kinda pointless.

Tilman
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