At 07:45 PM 1/30/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>This is a valid MIME digest:
[snip]
Yuk! I agree with Tom. For newsreaders which ignore MIME, this is an
unacceptable mess to force upon users. An FAQ is not a digest, was never
intended to be a digest, and therefore I see no reason why it should now be
turned into a digest. Thirty hyphens is a waste of bandwidth (for an FAQ
with 100 questions, this adds almost 3K), when possibly five is all one can
really justify, and it also looks ugly and adds nothing to readability. The
requirement of Subject tags to be prepended to questions is also a
hodge-podge retrofit. In light of these criticisms, I think any sane person
would agree with the subject line.
-- Archer http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/6413/End.
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