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I'm terrified of opening a paren andforgetting to close it! How terrifying to find a tagged paren that cannot be closed! "please accept from me this unpretenti

I'm terrified of opening a paren andforgetting to close it! How terrifying to find a tagged paren that cannot be closed! "please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming" <plaintext>s

layer8 2y ago
It was an easy way to use an existing plain-text document where HTML was expected. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-html-spec-02.txt#section-14.2.3 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-html-spec-0... The PLAINTEXT element was replaced by the LISTING element (which was itself deprecated in HTML 3.2): https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1866#section-5.5.2.1 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1866#section-5.5.2....