On Friday, June 07, 2002, Christian Harkness wrote:
> Hi, even the responses to my original post concerning
> my problems with reading the digest version of the forum
> are getting so mangled that I have a hard time
> following what is going on.
Unfortunately, the most popular e-mail clients, both PC and web
based, mangle by design. This happens when establishing market
control is more important than maintaining clear, free, and
universal modes of communication. Since the formats for quality
text based communication were pretty well hammered out in early
times, the only way for M$ and the like to gain proprietary
control is to cripple them. So we end up with things like
top-posting, and quoted text formats that are not only
incompatible, but ultimately stifle communication itself.
-- Scott Sellers mailto:scottsellers@mindspring.comReceived on Fri Jun 7 14:17:22 2002
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