In MsgID<20090930035322.7855a675@bluemoon> on Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:53:22
+0100, in uk.net.news.config, 'Rob Morley' wrote:

>On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:32:59 +0100
>"Anthony R. Gold"  wrote:
>
>> Where I come, from plain text is just a sub-set of binary and not
>> something different.
>
>I was wondering when someone would bring that up.  :-)  I think the
>problem lies partly in the sloppy use of "binary" to mean
>non-human-readable.  Even that is a misleading term - it's easy to read
>any binary ("one zero zero one zero one one ..."), just not
>particularly meaningful. And ASCII text files aren't really
>"human-readable" anyway because the characters are recorded as binary
>digits and mapped to more meaningful symbols by news clients, text
>editors ....

As I say in my message upthread ( MsgID <ha4r96$eti$1@news.datemas.de> ) I
believe the relevant word to be 'encoding',

I'd be interested to know your reaction to that posting as you usually
show good solid logic, which is what I was *trying* to inject.

Dave J.