On Wed, 1 Mar 2000 19:21:56 -0800 Michael Simcich <msimcich@accesstools.com> wrote:
...but can you give me an idea why "the standard makers" thought the way they did/do?
Be warned that this is a religious topic, and that the technical arguments presented for both sides are (arguably) easily balanced by the arguments from the other side. The following URLs contains reasonable arguments on both sides: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html http://www.metasystema.org/essays/reply-to-useful.mhtml Note that there are also some good pro-reply-to arguments under the first URL, despite its title. -- J C Lawrence Home: claw@kanga.nu ----------(*) Other: coder@kanga.nu --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--