test html message

Sun, Jan 1, 2006, 9:06pm (EST-1)
(Paul*Stewart) did this:
test html Gro

You failed. No html here, it's a non-binaries group. Next time
try alt.test, or it's summer school for you.



JOAT
You'll never get anywhere if you believe what you "hear".
What do you "know"?
- Granny Weatherwax

Paul Stewart wrote:
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------=_NextPart_000_0012_01C60F17.4689FAB0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

test html message
------=_NextPart_000_0012_01C60F17.4689FAB0

HTML part removed.

*sigh*

Can someone really be this dense?

*kerplonk*

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On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 23:25:42 -0500, (J T) wrote:

Sun, Jan 1, 2006, 9:06pm (EST-1)
(Paul*Stewart) did this:
test html Gro

You failed. No html here, it's a non-binaries group.

html isn't binary, it's text, but executable by web browsers


Next time
try alt.test, or it's summer school for you.



JOAT
You'll never get anywhere if you believe what you "hear".
What do you "know"?
- Granny Weatherwax


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Sun, Jan 1, 2006, 10:02pm (EST-2)
(Mark*&*Juanita) spaketh:
****html isn't binary, it's text, but executable by web browsers

OK, summer school for me.




JOAT
You'll never get anywhere if you believe what you "hear".
What do you "know"?
- Granny Weatherwax

On 2006/1/2 12:02 AM, "Mark & Juanita" wrote:

On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 23:25:42 -0500, (J T) wrote:

Sun, Jan 1, 2006, 9:06pm (EST-1)
(Paul*Stewart) did this:
test html Gro

You failed. No html here, it's a non-binaries group.

html isn't binary, it's text, but executable by web browsers

You are correct that HTML itself is written in SCII, but it is not what is
normally referred to as "plain text" since it includes all the markup
information. In addition, too many HTML editors automatically include
various binary objects such as fonts and embedded images.

In my opinion, plain text messages are preferable for email messages and
newsgroup postings. Not only does HTML increase the size of the message for
the sake of low value formatting but it can hide various malware. I have my
email and Netnews clients set up to ignore the HTML.

Also, there are still people who use newsreaders that don't understand HTML.

On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 11:55:45 -0500, Robert Haar wrote:

On 2006/1/2 12:02 AM, "Mark & Juanita" wrote:

On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 23:25:42 -0500, (J T) wrote:

Sun, Jan 1, 2006, 9:06pm (EST-1)
(Paul*Stewart) did this:
test html Gro

You failed. No html here, it's a non-binaries group.

html isn't binary, it's text, but executable by web browsers

You are correct that HTML itself is written in ASCII, but it is not what is
normally referred to as "plain text" since it includes all the markup
information. In addition, too many HTML editors automatically include
various binary objects such as fonts and embedded images.

In my opinion, plain text messages are preferable for email messages and
newsgroup postings. Not only does HTML increase the size of the message for
the sake of low value formatting but it can hide various malware. I have my
email and Netnews clients set up to ignore the HTML.


Not arguing with any of that. However, html is readable by a normal text
editor, thus does not really fall into the category of a "binary" posting.
There are numerous reasons, as you've pointed out, for not using html for
Usenet postings. I certainly was not advocating that people should post in
html, just pointing out that html is not binary in the strict definition of
binary postings.

Also, there are still people who use newsreaders that don't understand HTML.


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