On 2001-06-19 10:41 -0700, Bill Potts wrote:
> I wrote, to Bruce Raup:
> > Here it is. However, I'm very surprised that your word processor doesn't
> > have RTF capability. I thought they all did.
>
> It then occurred to me that it would be better if Greg had copied the letter
> into his message in the first place. It would have made for a much shorter
> transmission (and, for those of us who archive these messages, much more
> economy of space). (Incidentally, I only archive them for a couple of
> months, just in case anyone was thinking of requesting the retrieval of any
> old ones.)
I agree with this. Sending information that is perfectly representable in
plain text gains us nothing (except, perhaps, convenience to the sender),
but is inconvenient or impossible to read for many, and uses orders of
magnitude more bandwidth and disk space. For information with special
formatting needs, there are options more universally accessible than MS
Word or RTF. Examples include HTML and PDF.
Thanks again to Bill for resending the interesting letter in plain text.
Bruce
