> On Apr 25, 2016, at 8:11 AM, Michael Hendry <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 25 Apr 2016, at 13:39, Tim McNamara <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 25, 2016, at 5:00 AM, Andrew Bernard <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings All,
>>>
>>> In a recent post David Wright asks of a user:
>>>
>>>> Please configure your client to post a text equivalent of your HTML code.
>>>
>>> He also asked me to do that.
>>
>> The reality is that the world, given the ubiquity of broadband and graphical
>> interfaces, has moved on from plain text. It is no longer the standard and
>> has not been for a decade or more- most Internet users have, I suspect, no
>> knowledge of this old standard any longer. Expecting others to accommodate
>> what is now an out of date standard will simply continue to create issues.
>> It's like expecting web developers to accommodate lynx in creating Web
>> pages- probably not going to happen very often.
>>
>> One can choose to use text-only software but at this point we are
>> responsible for our own problems if we do. The world has changed and left
>> us behind.
>
> Heavens above!
>
> You’ll be wanting us to start top-posting next!
LOL! While top-posting is now normal as well, it really irks me and I can’t
imagine ever wanting to do it that way.
A: It’s backwards.
Q: What’s wrong with top posting?
Tim
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