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At 10:45 AM 2000/03/11 -0500, Ron Vetter <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>the "us-ascii" character set is the only one guaranteed to be >>consistent across all platforms and in all software applications >>which is the whole point of e-mail and the internet, no? >>janet > >i believe that standardization is important, but so is change to >better standards. the goal to have all the archives in the simplest >set is not overarching to all value/benefit. >some messages must be videos in color to transmit their message. >the whole point of the internet is not simplicity. >archiving is useful >multiple archives of the same information is wasteful in some instances >access to information in books is most appropriate for some collections >a video digital disk of real time surgery demonstration lecture >cannot be done in ascii >apologies for bluntness >typing takes energy >i ration my energy hi ron i'm off now so i'll be brief too, but not curt or hans or ... i agree with all of your points i have one addition to one: >the whole point of the internet is not simplicity. agreed; imho, the whole point of the internet is communication = ease and breadth thereof if ascii works as a text-standard, why mess with other more recent and less widely adopted and adaptive iso standards i thought it was ironic that two messages posted following yours were full of those =A peskies i would never consider that ascii should be used for anything but text but it's the backbone of html coding which i think is a cross-platform miracle in itself and which can include video, audio, animation, etc as well as text content yours in nerdity janet older and nerdier janet paterson 53 now / 41 dx / 37 onset a new voice: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ 613 256 8340 PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario Canada K0A 1A0