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At 6:13 on 17 Jul 98, Bill Smith  wrote in part:

> Solution: Do what ZDNet and some other sites do and have a link to a
> separate "printer-friendly" version of the article. If you're
> generating content from a properly structured database, it shouldn't
> require any extra human effort.

Unless the original is longer than the choke length for a lot of POPs.
You really don't want a steady stream of 20k-plus files bouncing back
at you because some reader's mailbox won't handle files that big. 

This shouldn't be too much of a problem for newspapers, as a 20k
text file is roughly 70 column inches in type. For a magazine,
however, it can be a serious problem. 



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