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Re: 1K 6502 programming contest !

In message <37220859.4098619@swbell.net>
          Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:

> 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.

No; it displays the plain text version.

Here's part of the guilty article:

| Message-ID: <371FB968.452E6A8C@swbell.net>
| From: Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>
| MIME-Version: 1.0
| Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
|  boundary="------------77AE8371E423F4045304E0C4"
| 
| --------------77AE8371E423F4045304E0C4
| Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
| Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
| 
| Fabrice Frances writes ...
| 
| > Hi all, I'm back, still groggy with time difference but anyway...
| > What it is that Rubywand and Whiteflame are both right about ?
| 
|      There was some question about the size of the Microtan. The current
| version is
[snip]
|      You can view all of the messages on Deja News via this ---> link.
| 
| 
| Rubywand
| 
| 
| --------------77AE8371E423F4045304E0C4
| Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
| Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
| 
| <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
| <html>

etc.

I normally see just the plain text, along with icons representing any
attachments - and Messenger Pro deliberately treats multipart/alternative as
multipart/mixed. MPro will also "display all" as if it was a MIME-unaware
news/mailreader.

>>>> 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.

Not really relevant...

> Plus, to see the listing of contest articles from Deja News, you just need
> to click on the highlighted word "link".

Which isn't much help when you're viewing the plain text version...

>>> 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)

Messenger Pro neither...

>> 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

Much better. And launchable from the Zap window in which I'm entering this
text. :-)

Yes, I could have extracted it from the raw HTML. But the point had to be
made, so...

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