From: Vic <tudor AT cam DOT org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Ban HTML postings?
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 15:01:01 -0500
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Nicolas Blais wrote:
> 
> Uhmm, why don't we ban 1999 cars too?  I mean, that old, very old 1985
> works just great.  Okay, I admit it it's not as good looking as the 1999
> one, but hey, changes are bad! How many people would rather have a
> 1999?  Now how many people would rather have HTML formatting?  Same
> people.  (Geez, text in 1998, how low have _they_ sunk?)

if 90% of the highways for the country cannot support the new 1999
model, but work flawlessly with the 1985, what do you do? continue to
destroy your roads just for the sake of progress?
The people with browsers that understand HTML are NOT the majority of
people on USENET, it's the other way around.