Well, this is going a bit off topic, but it's the ASCII nazi's.

When I was working on VRML, everyone wanted a human readable form.  Mind 
you, to me 3D data is binary, and it's not THAT hard to build a viewer, but 
everyone wanted numbers coded so you could hack a file by hand.

Same technique for all the Web related technologies.  I've done an HTTP 
server by hand for example with a TELNET session.  It IS possible, and the 
early protocol builders wanted it that way so they could debug things with 
telnet.

        == John ==

"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message 
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> Ricky Reusser wrote:
>> That makes sense even though it seems pretty inefficient.
>
> Nobody liked the efficient version (X.400, ASN.1, etc) except people that 
> transfer serious amounts of data. Perhaps the internet is starting to 
> catch up with the phone system in that respect, but I doubt it.
>

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