This from Paul Berkowitz - dated 27/2/06 03.45:
> On 2/26/06 7:26 PM, "Michelle Steiner" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On Feb 26, 2006, at 8:13 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>>
>>> Michelle> By using the following formatting of mail for scripts,
>>> the scripts
>>> Michelle> will retain their formatting--bold, color, etc., which
>>> makes it
>>> Michelle> easier to read.
>>>
>>> Except for the one thing that makes them useful... being normal ASCII!
>>
>> How does plain ASCII make them any more useful than formatting them?
>
> Actually ASCII has nothing to do with it. I assume Randal meant "plain text"
> - some people have this abhorrence of formatted text. I expect we'll be
> hearing from more of them.
I prefer plain text 99.9% of the time, but even this can be made difficult
to read when people use quoting styles that append the sender's name to the
beginning of each and every line of quoted text, leading to all sorts of
line-wrap madness when the text is re-quoted
Nick
pp Mr Tea
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