Re: 1K 6502 programming contest !

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Sat, 24 Apr 1999 13:07:21 -0500, Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>
wrote:

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

All Netscape is doing for you is allowing you to create an HTML reply
and then sends it as a MIME message.  The first part of the MIME
message contains the plain, unformatted text and the second part
contains the HTML code that Netscape created when you composed the
message.

This means that my newsreader will just show both parts in a single
message because it doesn't bother looking for MIME messages.

By the way, regardless of whether people's newsreaders actually
display only the text or HTML version of your message, everyone still
has to download both parts of the message and all the news server
still have to store both parts.  So your nicely formatted messages
will still take more than twice as much server space on all the
servers it sits on and take more than twice as long to transfer
between servers and to download.  All that waste and it is pretty
likely that a lot of the people who read it won't even see the nice
formatting.

Seems like a waste of bandwidth to me but then that is only my
opinion.  Besides, if I ever get around to writing a newsreader for
the IIgs I'll probably add the same ability I'm planning to add to my
e-mail client.  A way to send formatting with the message but it will
be done in a much saner way that won't more than double the size of
the message and give other clients the message twice.  :-)

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