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From: Arjun Ray <aray@nyct.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 22:05:32 +0000
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John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> wrote:

| What's amazing is that an SGML construction was waiting in the 
| wings that would grandfather such cruft and make it valid SGML.

Indeed.  Taking that "out" was IMHO the single greatest disaster to
afflict the web.  It was a classic example of Sufficient Ingenuity.  

The rest has been, not history, but angst and humbug.

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