Hi-ASCII Characters in MMD
By Richard Vance
Don't even think of making a fancier MMD. My e-mail doesn't seem to be able to handle 8-bit ASCII; your attempt to put ALT+0241 in "Senor" yesterday failed to print.
One of the great advantages of your present format is that you do not use graphics, wallpapers, "blue handles" and other fancy items with which other web users pollute their sites, but stick strictly to plain 7-bit ASCII text.
The result is, for only a few seconds of airtime a day, I can download pages full of solid content, which is all I want from a serious web site. Being unable to spell Aeolian with the AE ligature, and the very regrettable inability to do justice to the names of our valued overseas members, is a small price to pay for this.
Keep poking in your comments whenever you want. Not only does this preserve the essential conversational tone of the net, but it surely saves you labor compared with remembering the points to be commented upon and then composing a formal reply. I'm all for making your invaluable work easier.
Richard Zebulon Vance
Age 58 (07/07/38)
Pittsburgh PA, 15229-1160
[ Editors note:
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[ I'll contemplate the "essential conversational tone", Richard;
[ that's an attribute I hadn't recognized. :-)
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[ Of our 465 subscriber addresses, only one domain has sent a "bounce
[ message" back complaining that it's customers cannot receive 8-bit
[ ASCII, therefore I feel that the problem lies in the un-coordinated
[ translation of the characters as the messages are processed at the
[ destination sites. We are investigating this problem now.
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[ The Mechanical Music Digest will continue to use the "lower" 7-bit
[ ASCII almost exclusively, as you advocate. We hope to find a better
[ method, though, for the FOPS "Coming Events" file because it contains
[ many European names. Thanks for your comments.
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[ Robbie Rhodes |
(Message sent Sat 15 Feb 1997, 17:54:29 GMT, from time zone GMT.) |
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