Re: New compression method by Garmin

From: Marc Brett (marc_at_fordson.demon.co.uk)
Date: 03/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:07:31 +0000

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:40:11 -0000, "David Lee"
<davidlee_malvern@dont.use.this.bit.hotmail.com> wrote:

>"gomez" <adams_gomez@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:9f7h315t7vi7691ohmhddje925ph2lahdb@4ax.com...
>> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:14:48 +0100, "Jack" <nospam@nospam.com> dropped
>> the following oil-slick:
>>
>> <snip tesxt with unfeasibly long line length>
>>>
>> Would you like to repost that after first setting your line length to
>> a more reasonable 72 chars?
>
>Sorry I just can't resist - a good newsreader would wrap the lines when you
>read them! I'm having no problems at all reading his post in Outlook
>Express! :-)
>
>(Well it HAS to be good for something!)

Oddly enough, the OP's malformed post was composed on Outlook Express, so yeah,
it is good for something -- breaking the open standards on which the Internet
was built.

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