Mike Stirewalt wrote: > Two of the most knowledgable netters whose posts are always worth > reading, Langford and Brian Kraut, frequently leave posts which are > blank.
Blank messages are caused by messages that are sent to the list as HTML format, rather than plain text. Brian's email system is set up to default to HTML messages, but he figures it out quickly and resends them as plain text. I replied to one of his plain text emails, but for whatever reason, my email interpreted it as an HTML and sent it out as HTML, so it's didn't fly either, despite my setting up a "rule" that all email sent to KRnet is to be sent as plain text. Why the hassle and concern about HTML? It can harbor malware, and we get enough of that as plain text links. It's just another stone in the wall of defense, feeble as it may be. What I said this morning was: Brian Kraut wrote: >You are going to get a lot of flaming arrows for this post, but I for one agree with most of what you said.> My comment was "This says a lot coming from a guy that's "landed" a KR2 in a tree!" I will say that a successful forced landing makes the prospect of another one a lot less daunting. One thing that does make my pucker meter peg is flying low over a congested city, such as the approach into Columbia, SC, and the exit from Mallard in Omaha. An engine failure in either situation will not have a good outcome, and I'm sure almost all of us would agree that we'd appreciate something like a BRS under such conditions. Personally, I do my best to avoid such situations whenever possible, and flying high is a good habit I developed a long time ago. As in any risk management, consequences and likelihood can be adjusted down to an acceptable level most of the time, but not always... Mark Langford ML at N56ML.com http://www.n56ml.com
