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To: Amy J who wrote (135348)	5/17/2001 12:07:19 PM
From: tcmay	Respond to of 186894

Amy: "Hi Tim, RE: "But it seems endemic to Web-based chat tools.)"" "Yes, the industry needs to clean this up. One way to do this is through an OS platform that provides basic web-based collaboration tools, and XP will help provide/enable this." Plain text is the lingua franca of the Net. Plain text, aka ASCII, is the common mode for communicating in e-mail, Usenet, and even most of the Web (where fancy fonts are established locally by the user). To make my complaint clear, I use full-screen editors for editing this plain text for my mail application (either Eudora Pro or Mail for OS X) or for my Usenet postings (MT Newswatcher or Thoth). The process of manipulating the text is _separable_ from the forum. (And even more separable would be using a text engine, as some do. Emacs or TextEdit or even Microsoft Word, for example.) And yet here in SI, or in the Yahoo messages forum, or on various Web-based fora, various "little editing boxes," usually with widely varying conventions about included text, quotes, etc., are the norm. This could change without there being any need for an industry standard. But I'll get by, have no fears. "From your other post, RE: "$125 a year for the privilege of posting" ... I signed up just moments before the expiry of $250 lifetime membership." Did you actually pay $250 for a lifetime membership? After jumpig through the hoops (for example, the "online signup" is not possible, and hasn't been every time I've tried), National Discount Brokers did in fact send me my account number. SI accepted it and gave me my "free" account. Since I doubt I'll ever use this NDB account for actual trading, I wonder what will happen a year from now? We'll see. "Nice to read your posts. Glad you joined SI." Thanks. See you at the lunch a week from today. (After the Intel annual meeting.) --Tim May