Re: LYNX-DEV Mime type support.

[Michael Warner]

On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Klaus Weide wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Michael Warner wrote:
> 
> > The idea generated vast quantities of heat, and maybe even a
> > little light, on news.software.readers a few months ago.
> 
> Wasn't that more about distributing text/html news?

I didn't follow the whole thing (it generated about a bazillion
sub-threads), but I think it was set off by a NS Navigator beta with
text/html Usenet posting as the default, and diverged into ASCII/HTML
flamewars, other schemes for marking up news postings, the future of
Usenet generally, etc etc ... the whole thing struck me as proof that
Godwin's Law is not immutable.

Whether any of that was what the original writer (to this list) had in
mind, deponent knoweth not.

-- 
Michael Warner
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