Re: new ARN-L host and address

[Rick Parkany <rparkany@borg.com>]

Indeed, Victor...

...it takes a bit more time, but anyone can copy/paste text from MTML into e-mail. Most often, you
must remove much spacing elements in order to get it to line up *left justified*, but it CAN be
done. I do it all the time and NEVER send attachments.

Someone this list recently mentioned that they didn't think others went to the URLs when offered, so
they attache the article. EGADZ! too bad...IF they won't take the time to go to the URL, how
important is it that they read it offered up right in their face?

I wish we would all be flexible and be willing to LEARN as we journal in these spaces. After all, by
dumbing down the infra-structure, we're enabling doltish and stoggified attitudes and behaviors AND
exposing others to hazzards that could be highly destructive and debilitating--especially for us
whose careers and livlihoods depend upon these technologies.

C'mon, Folks! get up ta speed! we expect our children to be willing to learn...are we finished?

All the reasons for not allowing HTML and other attachments have been articulated seventeen times
already. Here's an eitheenth: there are viscious HTML codes that can be embedded in such
attachments, as well.

Let's keep to good info hygiene and practice *safe intercourse*, already! alright?

Happy New Year and I wish NOBODY ever to get their machines corrupted by laxiness and expediency.

BTW: the new list manager, Eric, is to be commended for the seemless transition, as well...	;-} rap.

Victor Steinbok wrote:
> 
> At 8:06 AM -0800 02.01.03, Erwin Morton wrote:
> >Monty, Eric--
> >
> >One thing not mentioned in the message below:
> >isn't the interversity.org host limited to plain ascii text,
> >with no attachments?  If so, will that be a problem?
> >Many of us have been using at least some formatting
> >for clarity, and occasionally attaching things that are
> >not easily turned into plain text.
> >
> >(One advantage of plain text:  no viruses, ever.)
> >
> >Will all non-ascii stuff in the archives either go away
> >or become inaccessible?
> >
> >Thanks--
> >
> >--Erwin
> 
> I suspect the greatest difficulty will be not just in attachments (I
> would welcome fewer graphics files) and formatting (we'll learn other
> ways to emphasize), at least, not directly. One thing that I noticed
> is that many of newspaper clippings come as attachments rather than
> in-line HTML. That means that instead of being stripped of codes, the
> entire messages will disappear and we'll get nothing but the headers.
> I've encountered this problem trying to forward messages from some
> Yahoo lists when my server gave unexpected bounces. The forwards are
> ASCII only and there is no easy way to tell when you look at the
> message whether the enclosed HTML clip is in-line or attached.
> 
> I have gone around the problem for the past year by forwarding the
> clippings to myself first, then stripping HTML before forwarding to
> anyone else, including this group. But, for people with slow
> connections and limited disc space, this may not be an option.
> 
>         VS-)

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