Re: 1K 6502 programming contest !

[Dickon Hood <dickon-news@fluff.org>]

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.  This is duplication.  And it's evil.

: > 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.

:      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...

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Dickon Hood

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