Posted by NRen2k5 on 11/16/88 11:36

Jon B wrote:
> That and of course a HTML message takes up a lot more code to say the
> same thing, so if you were downloading from a few groups and that
> amounted to 1000 messages per day [1], you'd have to download approx
> 5-10x as much data.

About 3x. 5-10x is greatly exaggerated.

> This is why I don't bother with web forums as so many are that full of
> html crap, avitars etc etc that make it slow to such a crawl it isn't
> worth bothering with.

There's difference between using HTML for some typesetting tags, and
using it to display three dozen images.

You don't see it, that's not its fault.

- NRen2k5

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