Date forwarded: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 16:09:55 -0800 (PST) Date sent: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 16:09:58 -0800 (PST) From: RL Bob Morgan <Bob.Morgan@Stanford.EDU> > I suggest not bothering. I suggest that the addition of page > breaks/headers/footers in I-Ds is an anachronism that wastes authors' > preparation time (e.g. yours here), too true. I spent (i.e. wasted) nearly as many hours trying to get the page numbers etc inserted correctly in .txt format, as in producing the ID in the first place, and I failed. I then spent more hours trying to get the generic printer to work, which it does not (if you dont believe me I attach a simple one sentence word document to this message with the accompanying text prn file (renamed to .txt) >is pointless when reading docs in > browsers/editors (where I suspect the vast majority of them are read), and > only makes it harder for readers to compare successive versions of drafts. > For what it's worth I made this suggestion in the recent thread on the > main IETF list about document formats and received only positive comments > ... > great. So what are we going to do about it? the main benefit I can see from using .txt format is that you send 2k of bits instead of a mega 20k using Word, to say essentially the same thing. (see the current attachments) So I dont advocate moving to Word, as downloading my email by modem will then take ten times as long. But .txt without headers and footers would certainly be a big step forward, at least for IDs David > - RL "Bob" > > > > *************************************************** David Chadwick IT Institute, University of Salford, Salford M5 4WT Tel +44 161 295 5351 Fax +44 161 745 8169 Mobile +44 370 957 287 Email D.W.Chadwick@iti.salford.ac.uk Home Page http://www.salford.ac.uk/its024/chadwick.htm Understanding X.500 http://www.salford.ac.uk/its024/X500.htm X.500/LDAP Seminars http://www.salford.ac.uk/its024/seminars.htm Entrust key validation string A7OX-K3QT-JPTU ***************************************************
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