Jargons of Info Tech industry

Rich Teer rich.teer at rite-group.com
Thu Aug 25 12:34:53 EDT 2005


On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Mike Schilling wrote:

> Another advantage is that evewry internet-enabled computer today already
> comes with an HTML renderer (AKA browser), so that a message saved to a file
> can be read very easily.

I think you're missing the point: email and Usenet are, historically have
been, and should always be, plain text mediums.  If I wanted to look at
prettily formatted HTML, I'd use a web browser to look at the web.

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Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member

President,
Rite Online Inc.

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