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- From: brsmith@duncan.cs.umn.edu (Brian R. Smith)
- Subject: Re: MIME in NEWS?
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:43:16 GMT
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- In <1993Jan11.081251.19255@xenitec.on.ca> vances@xenitec.on.ca (Vance Shipley) writes:
-
- >In article <DAVIDM.93Jan10225930@consilium.com> davidm@consilium.com (David S. Masterson) writes:
- >>Since the talk has strayed into rich text in news reading, I'd like to ask
- >>about all those people who read the news via dialups to a main system. Rich
- >>text is going to make it very hard for these people to read the news. Is
- >>anyone considering this (ie. is rich text still readable if you don't have a
- >>rich text reader)?
-
- >Dialup has nothing to do with it at all.
-
- This is true enough. I use a PowerBook with SLIP, telnet, and X server
- via a dialup. Multimedia news is not a problem.
-
- What I think Mr. Masterson was referring to was people reading news via
- dumb terminals/emulators/etc. They're not going to have access to
- graphics, sound, etc. Even if RichText is readable on dumb terminals,
- they won't *gain* anything from MIME additions to news, and, indeed,
- they'll lose portions of articles that can't be displayed on dumb
- terminals.
-
- But, then, my response to that is: "So what?" Folks with printing
- terminals are inconvenienced by full-screen editors. 300 baud modems
- aren't supported on many dialups nowdays either. If dumb terminals are
- finally dead (not yet, admittedly), I'll dance on their grave. You have
- to up the ante sooner or later...
- --
- Brian
- brsmith@cs.umn.edu
-