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February 15th 15, 12:57 AM
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Disgusting behavious by hams
Rob wrote:
wrote: Rob wrote: snip (who prohibited HTML, attachments, etc and delayed the creation of newsgroups by prohibitive bureaucratic mechanisms) If you actually knew anything about USENET and it's history, you wouldn't be asking such questions. I am on usenet since about 1994 and I have seen the "all postings should be plaintext 80-column format" debates more than often enough. Only since 1994; a newbee then. When HTML was suggested to allow markup and MIME was invented to allow attachements, it was forbidden by the usenet people. This made those that did not grow up with 80-character ASCII terminals leave the scene in disgust. Pity. The idea that USENET should be ASCII comes from the desire that it be usable with ANY terminal out there. There are STILL lots of ASCII only newreaders out there. A lot of people do not use web browsers to interact with USENET. Attachments have ALWAYS been allowed if uuencoded; all real newsreaders support uuencode/uudecode. There are NO "prohibitive bureaucratic mechanisms" for the alt. groups and it is blazingly obvious to the most casual observer what that leads too. -- Jim Pennino |
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