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On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 01:59:17PM +0100, Matthew Hambley wrote:
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> The reason I decided to go down the HTML->text route rather than the
> text->HTML is that you are effectively loosing information when you convert
> from HTML to text. Thus it is not possible to infer that information on the
> return journey.

At the risk of incurring the Wrath of Curmudgeons, this loss of
information is why I decided to keep my FAQ's in HTML format only, and
post them that way. If people want to lynx -dump them, let them
remove the information themselves.
 -Tom

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