- From: John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 08:33:46 -0500 (CDT)
- To: Benjamin Franz <snowhare@netimages.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Benjamin Franz wrote: > Anyone else *REALLY* peeved at this 'abbreviate until meaningless' > approach to header design? You might as well go whole hog - why just save > two bytes from the *value* of the when you can save 8 from the *name* of > the header? Just call it 'N: t'. :/ If you are *SERIOUS* about saving > bytes in the header - change to a machine readable format. But don't play > this game of 'this is a human readable format so we will give it a > meaningful name and then chop so many letters out that the meaning is > lost'. The first rule of abbreviation for humans is to remove as many > letters as possible without losing the meaning *and no more*. > I agree completely. Let's have a human readable format or a binary format, but not the worst of both worlds. John Franks Dept of Math. Northwestern University john@math.nwu.edu
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