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Default Fuel Cost Comparisons once more


Victor Sack wrote:
>
> Theron > wrote:
>
> > This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
> >
> > ------=_NextPart_000_005B_01CA442F.B5225C00
> > Content-Type: text/plain;
> > charset="iso-8859-1"
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> >
> > This, in rich text format.

>
> No, it is not. It is in the bloody HTML format and it is not supposed
> to be posted to Usenet unless your aim is to be killfiled. Look at all
> the junk above and below!
>
> Victor


Folks, this is the year 2009, and October no less, nearly 2010. The days
of 2400 baud or less modems and using USENET shorthand to minimize
bandwidth usage are long over. Even folks still stick on dialup are
getting 36kbps or better connections generally.

The post in question was not a megabyte sized binary posted to a text
group, it was an HTML formatted text message, with the HTML formatting
helping to present a properly ordered chart. The folks complaining about
an HTML post need to get with the 21st century as this complaining is
akin to complaining about someone writing a message in ink on paper vs.
chiseling a stone tablet.