Denis Kasak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Schilling wrote: >> >> Threaded mail-readers too, screen-based editors , spell-checkers, all >> useless frills. > > Interestingly enough, I have explained my opinion in the part of the > post you have trimmed. On the other hand, things you mentioned are far > from being useless. They introduce no intrinsical slowdown due to > increased bandwidth consumation, nor potential security problems.
You can't be sure: errors in the handling of threads can cause a buffer overflow, same for spelling checking :-D > They > have no downsides I can possibly think of Some people never use them, and hence they use memory and add risks. > and have many advantages. They > are useful. HTML on Usenet is not. Of course can HTML be useful on Usenet. The problem is that it will be much more often abused instead of used. -- John Small Perl scripts: http://johnbokma.com/perl/ Perl programmer available: http://castleamber.com/ Happy Customers: http://castleamber.com/testimonials.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
