Re: 1K 6502 programming contest !

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Dickon Hood writes ...
> 
> In message <37215AC6.EB7F473@swbell.net>
>           Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:
> 
> : Darren Salt writes ...
> 
> : > Duplicating your text in HTML is a waste of bandwidth.
> 
> :      It was not dup posted-- just html.
> 
> You appear to be unaware that the web browser strips all the HTML crap out of
> the post and prepends the plain text version (generally *very* badly
> formatted) to the top.

     Evidently, whatever sort of reader you are using just dumps the html
source to you. That would, indeed, be messy.   


 ....
> 
> : > Some of us prefer newsreaders to newsbrowsers.
> 
> :  ....
> 
> :      Sorry about that-- was wondering how the html posting would 'fly'.
> 
> It fell out of the sky due to being overburdened with useless formatting
> directives.
>

     That's too bad. It looks really nice and compact on a PC running
Netscape. Plus, to see the listing of contest articles from Deja News, you
just need to click on the highlighted word "link". 

 
> :      My reason for not posting the URL is that it is very long and, for
> : many readers, would need to be cut and pasted to come up with something
> : useable.
> 
> So?  Some of us are actually capable of such things.  Plus, if you don't
> wordwrap it, most URLs (although not that one with Messenger) are spotted as
> such in the plain text and are clickonable to launch the browser...
>

     Cool! Here is the URL:

http://www.dejanews.com/[ST_rn=ps]/dnquery.xp?ST=PS&QRY=&defaultOp=AND&DBS=1&format=terse&showsort=score&maxhits=25&LNG=ALL&subjects=contest&groups=comp.sys.apple2&authors=&fromdate=mar+1+1999&todate=apr+22+1999

 
> --
> Dickon Hood
> 
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     No problem.



Rubywand