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To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen)
Date: 23 Oct 2001 15:06:28 -0700
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Someone wrote (just note the format after the bold command):

> PLEASE DON'T HTML FORMAT YOUR STUFF!!
...
> First of all, boiled down you are saying that some group related to your
> organization
> in some fashion is telling you to spend a whole lot of money and time
> replacing a
> running system for some undefined reason with a system that may or may not
> work with
> some undefined benefits.  In addition your saying that this recommendation is
> so
> powerful that your expecting to follow it.

It will sure be nice when we all get computers powerful enough to handle
automatic formatting and no longer have to read those kinds of things.

It looks like we're going to have to wait until Microsoft users manage to
impose it upon us, with some strings attached.  A sad story, often told.

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