Re: Abstract

[Alex Lancaster]

>>>>> "DD" == Doug Donalson <address@hidden> writes:

Hey Doug!

Great abstract.  Look forward to seeing the presentation at SwarmFest!

I have a teensy-weensy little favour...  could you possibly send your
e-mails to the Swarm lists in plain ASCII text?  Although my mail
reader (gnus) does a reasonable job of parsing some HTML documents, it
doesn't do HTML 4.0 as yet.  This is what one line looks like:

DD> 
93106<BR>*********************************************************************<BR>*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

It also takes a longer to parse and read the e-mail than plaintext,
plaintext saves bandwidth, disk space, is more searchable in the Swarm
mailing list archives, and doesn't require any special plugins.  I
also know that I'm not alone in using emacs-based or non-HTML parsing
mail clients.

Cheers, Alex
-- 
Alex Lancaster * address@hidden * www.santafe.edu/~alex * 505 984-8800 x242
Santa Fe Institute (www.santafe.edu) & Swarm Development Group (www.swarm.org)


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