Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!olivea!apple!portal!sv!moose
From: moose@svc.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Rich Text and comp.sys.next
Message-ID: <1990Nov30.183806.3645@svc.portal.com>
Date: 30 Nov 90 18:38:06 GMT
References: <4196@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Software Venture
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In article <4196@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> simsong@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Simson L. Garfinkel) writes:
>Hi.  I'm building a new News reader for the NeXT as part of my PhD research.
>This news reader will also have the ability to post.
>
>One of the things that I've been playing around with is the idea of posting
>Rich Text to newsgroups --- in particular, to comp.sys.next.

I think it's a bad idea.  For a mailing list, NeXT attachments and RTF stuff
is appropriate since everyone says they want it.  For a public forum, it's
a real pain to the people that don't want to use some special software.
-- 
Michael Rutman				|	moose@svc.portal.com
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