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From: cmf851@anu.oz.au (Albert Langer)
Subject: Re: Commercial Archives
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.193928.21180@newshost.anu.edu.au>
Keywords: software patents copyright MSEN SGML richtext richmail X11R5 emv filtering
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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 91 19:39:28 GMT

In article <EMV.91Jun23144034@bronte.aa.ox.com> emv@msen.com (Ed Vielmetti) 
writes (many things related to an interesting dicsussion I don't have time to
participate in, so I'm just responding on the occasional side issue):

>Markup information provided for use by news readers which implement
>the experimental "Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing Internet
>Message Bodies", available for anonymous ftp from 

The markup appears to be based on SGML (Standard Generalized Markup
Language, which has an ISO standard and is indeed suitable for maintaining
both text databases and revisable form rich text documents via news).

However if a suitable SGML document type HAS been defined for your
purposes then you ought to publish it and reference it as a public
text. Then you can use a MUCH less verbose (but equally readable)
notation - e.g. omitting or shortening most of the end markers and
making use of various abbreviations and typist techniques.

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