From: Eugene Leitl (eugene@liposome.genebee.msu.su)
Date: Tue Mar 10 1998 - 13:00:49 MST
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Michael Lorrey wrote:
> Its sad indeed to see neo-neo-luddites on an extropian mail list who think
Oh woe! 'gene's a closet neo-ludd.
> that '7-bit ascii should be enough for anybody'. I think that using HTML as
Obviously your spamfilter has been overzealous, removing the
<IRONy><megaBLINK></NUKE></IRONy> tags.
> an email standard is an excellent step up in the quality of communication.
Then _which_ HTML version, bitteschoen? The w3's consortiums'? N$'s?
M$'s? XML? SGML? XXLML? (I modestly submit mine). And which one will it
be next week? I suggest the one the Book of Kells has been written in.
> Here's words for warning to this reactionary attitude: "Why would anyone ever
> need more than 640k of RAM?", so sayeth Chairman Bill Gates, in 1981.
I stand corrected. And propose we all henceforth communicate solely in
blowfish-encyphered, Java-spiced VRML UNICODE Chinese ideograms. Only
PGP-signed gzipp'd byte-code compilates admitted, of course. This will
also nicely take care of the S/N ratio.
> As one of the most technophilic mail lists on the net, we should be
> encouraging the use of as high a quality communications medium as
> possible, to push the standards forward.
Yes. We should push it as far as the channels let us.
ciao,
'gene
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