On Sun, 14 May 2000, Roeland Meyer (E-mail) wrote:
1) some of us use mailers that won't let us change that easily. 2) but, then those same mailers expect to be talking to updated mailers on the other end.
There are plenty of updated mailers that run in a term session...
Come ON guys! Use Netscape, under an X session. Do I have to stay stuck in PINE just because of a few old troglodytes? I already have HTML and RTF turned off.
Yes! I don't know anyone that can blow through mailing list chaff quickly in any of the GUI-fied mailers. I like to read/compose mail without ever taking my hands off the keyboard... I don't want my mailboxes spread over 16 machines for the next person to peek at, and we don't run an IMAP MTA yet... You know, I can even click on web links in my crunchy old mailer? I don't even have to see the ads (hello lynx!). If I so desired, I could have Netscape fire up for this purpose as well.
As soon as I find the wrap switch, I'll hit it.
Edit->Prefs->mail&news->messages->"wrap outgoing, plain text messages at X chars" Not to start a religious war, but I really must say every GUI MUA I've ever touched is bloated, clunky, non-intuitive, slow, and mouse-click heavy. :) Charles
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of David Lesher Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 5:46 AM To: smd@clock.org Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Please Format Your Posts
Unnamed Administration sources reported that smd@clock.org said:
Or is it a lost cause to expect people to be concerned about the number of characters on a line, when they are arguing that we shouldn't worry about the number of globally-known routing prefixes?
I would hope not, but....
One alternative is to regard unwrapped lines, HTML, 20 line sigs, and ms-tref as scoring; they help you evaluate the poster, as well as her/his post.
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