Justin H. wrote:
> Because there are still people on per-minute dial-ups, or
> pay-per-connection telcos. Quite a LOT of people, in fact.
There ya go. That's a *very* good reason, and I should hang my head in
shame for forgetting that there are folks outside of the US, who might
incur very high telecommunication charges for net access.
> Also, there are a lot of people who use text only mail/news clients that
> will puke out the ugliest looking page you've ever seen. And don't
> forget the few well known security issues that people simply don't want
> to deal with - which is why some people use text only mail/news clients.
That's the very reason I won't use Outlook Express for news.
> There's other stuff that I'm not thinking of to take into consideration,
> so the above is only a partial sample.
But a good sample. Thanks for kick-starting my brain. :)
Mark
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