newsgroup posting in plain text

If you use Outlook:

Go to TOOLS > OPTIONS > SEND and then flag pain "text" for newsgroups
MM

"ManhattanMan" <umama.DeleteThis@binlaidon.com> wrote in message
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> OK - I'm getting tired of the html posts, and having my replies asking "do
> you really want to reply in html when lots of people might not be able to
> see it, etc., etc., etc............." not to mention the pain in the ass
> super small fonts sometimes encountered.
>
> Is it too much to ask that people use plain text in the newsgroups?
>
> It's simple, just go to the setup section, and select "plain text" for
> newsgroups.......
>
> Thank you.
>
> Cheers'n beers.. [_])
> Don (here)
>
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Hmm, why do people still use plain text? Surely evryone has a computer up to
date enough to view html text.


"ManhattanMan" <umama.DeleteThis@binlaidon.com> wrote in message
news:fzPqj.22$QJ3.4@newsfe07.phx...
> OK - I'm getting tired of the html posts, and having my replies asking "do
> you really want to reply in html when lots of people might not be able to
> see it, etc., etc., etc............." not to mention the pain in the ass
> super small fonts sometimes encountered.
>
> Is it too much to ask that people use plain text in the newsgroups?
>
> It's simple, just go to the setup section, and select "plain text" for
> newsgroups.......
>
> Thank you.
>
> Cheers'n beers.. [_])
> Don (here)
>
 >> Stay informed about: newsgroup posting in plain text 

On 2/9/2008 1:39 AM, M Knorr went clickity clack on the keyboard and
produced this interesting bit of text:
> Hmm, why do people still use plain text? Surely evryone has a computer up to
> date enough to view html text.

Because it's not part of the NNTP standard. While HTML is plain text
and as such can be transmitted to newsgroups without violating any of
those standards and many news readers support it, it still doesn't make
it right or part of the standard. You can read about it section 2.2 of
RFC977 which is the standard for NNTP. It states that it supports an 8
bit character but that only 7 bits are used. The high order bit is set
to 0. I see lots of characters which violate this standard.

Not only that, but when you can start putting in different fonts and
stuff, you start making things harder to read. News is not intended to
be a web page. You want fonts and pictures? Use a web forum. That's
what the web is for. I have nothing against web forums or what you can
do with them, but all that stuff belongs on the web. I don't expect to
see a bicycle with an automobile trailer hitch nor do I expect to see a
4X4 with one of those stupid donut spare tires. HTML supports that
stuff, NNTP does not.

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"M Knorr" <mknorr.TakeThisOut@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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> Hmm, why do people still use plain text? Surely evryone has a computer up
> to date enough to view html text.
>

It's old fuddy duddy stuff from many years ago. 150 baud modems, no storage
to speak of, run by committee, change is slow.

The new stuff (dedicated web sites) is much better of course. You can post
pics or perhaps a vid of your approach if you are trying to get a point
across.

Some ISPs don't even carry newsgroups anymore. The system failed to change
with the times and I'm sure it is dying off. Many in the computer world
don't even now of its existence.


>
> "ManhattanMan" <umama.TakeThisOut@binlaidon.com> wrote in message
> news:fzPqj.22$QJ3.4@newsfe07.phx...
>> OK - I'm getting tired of the html posts, and having my replies asking
>> "do you really want to reply in html when lots of people might not be
>> able to see it, etc., etc., etc............." not to mention the pain
>> in the ass super small fonts sometimes encountered.
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"Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb RemoveThis @bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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takes less bandwith,

Very important difference when you still use morse code to access the
internet. lol
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Vernon Balbert <vbalbert.DeleteThis@gmail.nospam.com> wrote in
news:QWurj.7871$nK5.2762@nlpi069.nbdc.sbc.com:
>
> Perhaps, but this isn't about horseless carriages or new-fangled
> technology. It's about what's used where. If there was a need to
> change the standards for NNTP then there would be a new RFC to do
> that.
> There are plenty of places where you can get all the graphics and
> formatting you want. Believe it or not, there are people out there
> that cannot see these things and plain text is the best thing. (For
> example blind and nearly blind who have to use voice synthesis to read
> what's on screen.) Then there's one person here who has used HTML
> formatting that doesn't come through on my machine and is completely
> unreadable.
>

I use Xnews (beats rn!) and read my posts in ascii as God intended
Usenet to be.

scott s.

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