[FFML] Question about how to keep the text as is after submitted

[Steffan]

As others have pointed out, ASCII is the safest (and most basic) format 
-- doesn't lend itself quite so much to virii or malware.

I'd suspect the bandwidth issue would play a significant role as well.  
The extra coding in HTML uses a *lot* of bandwidth.  That may not be so 
much of an issue for most of us, but some of us still have dialup.

--Steffan

Rebecca Heineman wrote:
> I'm with Arthur on this one. I've long since moved on to HTML and DOC files
> for my stories since it's better told with formatting. I keep PDF versions
> on my site for anyone who wishes to read them. For the very, very select few
> who insist on reading in ASCII, it's trivial for them to copy the text and
> paste it into a plain text file for their offline reading.
>
> My prose is formatted on Fanfiction.net, so if you want to see it visible
> from a web browser, I keep copies of my stories there as well.
>
> It's 2008, not 1988. Why doesn't a mailing list that celebrates the written
> word not allow those words to be shown in the way the writer intended them
> to appear?
>
> Becky
>
> My cell phone supports formatting...
>
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