Life after PMMail

[Michael Baum]

>    As I said before, there is no formatting that cannot be in ASCII that can
>be in HTML.  Including:
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The major issue is somehow accommodating the legions of old command-line fogies who, having just barely gotten used to the concept of keyboards with minuscule as well as majuscule letters, cannot reasonably be asked to deal with any format more complex than ASCII. They _will_ continue to harp about trivia like "bandwidth", never realizing that they have entered a new world where hardware and protocol improvements are making bandwidth limitless for all practical purposes; where formatting protocols are converging on widely accepted, international standards; where fusion power and fuel cells will make electricity too cheap to meter, where ....

Bother. 
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