Posted by Blinky the Shark on 11/20/75 11:20

Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
> Steve Horrillo wrote:
>> You need to get Newsrover and that will end your confusion.

> First, we all got "treated" to Web sites that had lines like "Best
> Viewed with [browser name] version [number] at [number]x[number]
> resolution on [platform]", telling us that we were second-class citizens
> because our browser/platform/screen of choice differed.

> Next, we got spam e-mails that emulated this by telling us to upgrade
> our mail program to properly view their ads, if we had the effrontery
> to, for instance, use a mail program that is configured to display the
> plain-text version of a multipart message instead of the HTML one.

> Now, even Usenet isn't free of this, as we have posts like yours that
> tell us that they're best viewed in the author's favorite newsreader!

> Where will this end?

In the bin, with Horrillo? :)

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