MIME cruft vs. straight ASCII 128

Tim May tcmay at got.net
Sun Oct 14 17:07:45 PDT 2001


On Sunday, October 14, 2001, at 02:58 PM, measl at mfn.org wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote:
>
>> Could you please try posting *legible* content?  This is utterly
>> unreadable.
>
> How about you go fuck yourself?
>
> Your constant bitching about formatting is old.  I have posted it as I
> received it - ugly, from a windblow$ luser.
>
> If you have so much trouble reading EVERY goddamn post here, why don't 
> you
> just killfile us all?

I agree with Measl. I sent "Karsten M. Self" (if that's his real name) 
to the cornfield for his worthless contributions and willful ignorance.

I got the "Anthrax protocol issued" post just fine. Maybe it's because I 
have "Show MIME" disabled. Maybe "Karsten M. Self" is complaining 
because he has MIME enabled.

(Which is presumably why we keep getting his MIME signatures attached to 
his mail, and which lne.com thoughtfully removes.)

Fact is, straight ASCII text is the lingua franca of the Net (note that 
"lingua franca" was NOT italicized in some non-ASCII 128 font). What is 
lost in not having accent agraves and umlauts and Farsi language fonts 
is more than made up for by having the "straight 128" ASCII character 
set.

--Tim May
"You don't expect governments to obey the law because of some higher 
moral development. You expect them to obey the law because they know 
that if they don't, those who aren't shot will be hanged." - -Michael 
Shirley





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