Asri-unix.891
net.space
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:C70:sri-unix!RWK@MIT-MC
Thu Mar  4 04:25:15 1982
Back to basic?
Force all us humans to read machine-format formulae for the sake of
our friends at Xerox who seem to lack fixed-width fonts?  Seems to be
a case of blindly embracing new technology while throwing away the
advantages of the old.  There's a lot of fixed-width formated text in
this world, so I always use a single fixed-width font for reading (and
writing) mail.  I don't use my integral sign key either, and thus we
can communicate both ways.

But I don't want to start a discussion about message-formatting
technology (at least, not in this forum).  I do want to point out that
it is an imposition to expect the rest of the world to read
fortran-gubble with naked eyeball.

                 -- ((B*o-b)/(K*e/(r+n-(log(s)))

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