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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 30 Apr 1998.
Re: MindSpring joins other ISPs in filtering HTML posts

Re: MindSpring joins other ISPs in filtering HTML posts



Colin Douthwaite wrote:

> Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> >Colinstein, you are completely changing your set of anti-html arguments,
> >from
>
> >1) html is off-topic in aaa
>
> >to something completely different
>
> >2) ISPs against html posts
>
> >This change to 2) is even more remote from ascii art.
>
> >Why don't you continue the discussions along the lines of 1) ?
> >Did you run out of arguments?
>
> That forwarded posting was not intended as an argument but as an
> example showing someone else's viewpoints on HTML and its use in
> Usenet newsgroups. The MindSpring thread is a big thread currently
> running in the newsgroup " alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent ".
>
> I happen recently to have started to use Free Agent in addition to
> the TIN newsreader so I am also reading the newsgroup,
> alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent right now.
>
> Do you want me to start a thread in "alt.ascii-art" about how to use
> the newssreader Free-Agent for Ascii Art postings ?  The Free-Agent
> fonts are different...and care is needed with right-hand margin
> settings...shall I go on ?   *8-)
>
> Bye,

  [the twins]


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From: joris bellenger <svz...@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: MindSpring joins other ISPs in filtering HTML posts
Date: 1998/04/30
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