On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Ira Abramov wrote:
> Thanks but no thanks for the blind hate demonstration. if you cared to
> look into the attachment you would find it was:
>
> 1. plain text, usable by anyone without a machine parser
Yes, but incorrectly labeled as application/octet-stream MIME type. Why
should you look at an octet-stream? If it were labeled as text, pine would
have displayed it.
> 2. contained useful information, ready to be dragged into a bookmark as
> a link, even with an age field.
No, it didn't. It contained a binary file in a proprietary format (that
can change without notice), which happened to contain text. I find it deeply
ironic that a link to a site that is clearly against closed ``standards'' is
given using a proprietary M$ format.
Alon
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