Murray Lesser wrote in a message to Holger Granholm:

ML>     Pete once told me that he doesn't believe in ftp.

HG>Well, it's up to him I guess. I like to FTP rather than using the
  >browser.

 ML>     So do I.  As far as I am concerned, using a browser for 
 ML> anything is a last resort, to be avoided if at all possible.

While I too am rather down on the way the browser approach has been pushed to
the limit and then some,  and I really don't care for stuff like _email_ full
of HTML code,  I have come lately to see it as a useful tool in some respects. 
Primarily for its original intended uses -- linking together huge piles of
text,  like the doc files I've been trying to get organized lately.

Since I'd noticed that said doc files came in all sorts of formats,  a lot of
them in HTML,  I got acquainted with it and proceeded to build a page or two
so I could get at them.  The nicest part is that these reside on my Linux
server box and I can get at them from either the OS/2 box with Netscape or
with the w95 box and IE,  with similar results in either case.  It comes in
handy at times.

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