Re: Sydney Rail Tunnel Tours

[alberta@zip.com.au (Albert Alcoceba)]

On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 11:29:23 +0800, "David & Jan Winter"
<winterd@icenet.com.au> wrote:

>It would be interesting to survey who's using what. I can understand why
>with a 486DX-33 (it is DX?), you might not want to run Gates' bloatware -
>even 95.

[...]

>Netiquette is a real issue, because it is a nice way of saying we must
>operate at the lowest common denominator. That said, I don't see much value
>in HTML or RTF over ASCII "plain text", but I do see value in being able to
>include diags, pix, etc. That points to a "bin" NG but the lively discussion
>is HERE!

That's all very well for the home PC... but what about storage space
at the news server at your local ISP?  If everyone posts in HTML the
storage required would go up by a factor of 10!  That means articles
being purched earlier or a limit in the number of newsgroups carried
of charges going up.  Also associated with this is the cost of the
data to ISP's, all who pay for volume of data from their upstream
providers.


Albert Alcoceba
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