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<tt>Nobody uses Pine anymore? <br>
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oops - does my age show<br>
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SIP wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 01:02:27PM -0400, SIP wrote:
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<pre wrap="">This is a mailing list; the rules here are pretty much the same as
Usenet: your reputation will really honest-to-$DEITY live and die on 72
character hard wrapped lines, blank lines between paragraphs, no HTML,
and a clean signature.
I am not, as the saying goes, making this up.
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<pre wrap="">So wait... by 'real' email client, you mean ELM?
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<pre wrap="">Mutt, actually.
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<pre wrap="">Seriously... what kind of standard is 72-character hard-wrapped lines?
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<pre wrap="">I haven't seen that since we all wrote on 80-character terminals. Which
are not what I'd call 'real' email clients.
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<pre wrap="">Then you don't hang out on Usenet, or many technical mailing lists.
The *vast* majority of messages I see on my 19 mailing lists (over 500
messages a day) are hard wrapped, where they're not HTML -- and we
strongly discourage HTML; many lists hard-bounce it. And with good
reason:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://expita.com/nomime.html">http://expita.com/nomime.html</a>
Hell, even Outlook Web Access with Exchange 5.5 wraps replies to 78
columns. I was pleasantly surprised to find out. Still cant mark
quotes properly.
You came up out of Fidonet, didn't you? :-)
Cheers,
-- jra
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<pre wrap=""><!---->I actually came up out of Usenet, but gave up those archaic habits when
they... you know... became archaic. Some call it progress. I call it
evolution.
I use mutt still on occasion (and elm on old machines) when I'm forced
in through a term window. But for the most part, I, and a huge majority
of actual living, breathing humans, find such things tedious and
needlessly arcane. While there's something to be said for honouring
traditions, there's also something to be said for not adhering to
outmoded methods of communication for the sake of proving one's digital
upbringing.
I wear my evolution as a badge of honour. ;)
N.
:wq
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