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Re: [sharechat] Announcement


From: Will Bryant <will@sharechat.co.nz>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 08:14:03 +1300


I think we are going to have to agree to disagree on this point.    I
don't see a benefit in using HTML text for simple text
[..]
> 'Ease of use?'  What could be 'easier' than just plain text?
The biggest ease-of-use problem with plain text is that the long URLs wrap around, and so don't work when people click on the top line.  This is the single biggest reason we decided HTML would be better.  Next on the list was styling, which does affect usability quite substantially.

The original intention was to provide users with the same thing they would get if they went to the main page, but delivered to their mailbox.  Your point is taken, and I think that the ideal solution would be to do both an HTML version and a text version, but the really very small number of people who would take the text option don't justify the considerable time and effort we would need to implement it.

Regarding the advertising thread, we probably will add advertising to the email market news, but that wasn't one of the reasons we decided to go with HTML.

And by the way, HTML didn't bring on 0867, interconnect fees did.  Clear were being paid thousands of dollars a month in interconnect fees by Telecom which they immediately passed on to some of their big ISP users; it's considered common knowledge in the industry that this was the prime motivator for the 0867 system.  If Telecom reinvested some of their enormous profit in upgrading their network, they could easily cope with the demand.

But we digress.  Back to the sharemarket..

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