Re: Plain Text vs Html

The point he is making is that the article you mention is from 1998.
Generally the guidelines are solving virtual problems which are invalid
for more than a decade. Also, top posting is much more efficient than
bottom posting in my opinion.

Welcome to the past...

R.

> On Wednesday 04 November 2009, David Weintraub wrote:
>> When Usenet was king, you used text only, did bottom posting, removed
>> excess quotes, and kept your signature down to no more than 4 lines.
>>
>> Much of that was due to bandwidth and diskspace limitations. Plus,
>> most usenet news readers were command line driven.
>
> You are missing an important point, and that is communication efficiency.
> If
> you ask me if I like red or maybe rather green, and I answer yes, you
> don't
> know what I'm talking about. You might guess that the initial one (red) is
> affirmed with the yes, but that is just guessing. By stripping the
> relevant
> content and addressing each statement separately, you make very clear what
> you are referring to, so this guessing part is left out.
>
> This is btw common knowledge, see e.g.
> http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html.
>
> Uli
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