Steve wrote:

> It's the download that's the annoyance and the loading whatever
> group it is in, not the content.  It's just spam.

	I think I know the one real and the dozen imaginary meanings of
spam. You appear to be in the imaginary zone. 

	In my time I have told folks with their HTML on that fine but
turn it off because they are not using it. Defaults are fun but
... Use it, fine. No problem. 

	The HTML encapsulation of elementary information is not a bad
idea. Now you can object to all the extra vcards but they are not
duplicated where sigs are with every post. If I post a million
messages, you get a million sigs and only vcard. And I know that
is dependent on cluster size and packet size and all the rest. It
might be a totally dumb idea. 

	From my point of view. I started posting in these newsgroups
about seven months ago. 

	I started the vcard about that time. I can explain if you know
Windows but otherwise don't ask. 

	Then after posting in almost every group for all that time,
including this one, I get a nastygram from one person in general.
He starts a flame war. A statement that "we don't do that here"
would have been fine and treated accordingly. Who the hell is we? 

	Remember "including this one."

	And I do not give a rat's ass who reads what I poat or not. He
who has eyes, let him read. He who doea not read, EF off. 

	From what most of my readers say there is a greater cost in
following my convoluted syntax than ignoring lines that are
obviously to be ignored can possibly compare to. 

	Is that a good enough example?

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