In a message dated 10/20/2004 3:43:48 PM Mountain Standard Time, shalesller@writeme.com writes:
The principle of the greatest good for the greatest number doesn't mean let's throw out the lesser numbers.
How dare we be so provincial as to ignore the EBCDIC users. There's thousands of character sets in the world--what gives us the right to ignore the "lesser numbers" of non-ASCII users? Excuse me, I thought that was exactly what I said. Doesn't "doesn't mean let's throw out the lesser numbers" mean the same as "what gives us the right to ignore the lesser numbers"? I don't want to ignore anybody. And I'm crawling back into the woodwork. Every time I start posting I wind up in a flame war, which is the last thing on earth I want. Anne Egads. I'm crawling