William Geiger <whgiii@amaranth.com> writes:
Dimitri Vulis <dlv@bwalk.dm.com> writes:
Surely someone who can't learn to format their text to 80 columns (perhaps because he uses a dead operating system) has no credibility when he speaks of technical things he clearly knows nothing about.
Are you incapable of turning on the word-wrap on your editor??
You may not get along with Dimitri, but in this case you are clearly in the wrong. If you consult any newbie FAQs for USENET, mailing lists, netiquette, etc. you should notice that lines less than 80 chars long are recommended. People who insist on splurging 120 char. long lines are usually poorly read. It just looks so disgusting as to be near unreadable on the majority of newsreading software. With the volume of this list, and the fact that the cluefull actually do produce < 80 long lines, I'm sure many just don't have the patience to read such stuff. Retorts about how the reader should ajust their software to your non-compliance to the accepted standards is just ridiculous. I've also got a beef with people who produce mime encoded junk. Things where all lines end in `=', and punctuation characters are mime encoded. Yuck! Turn it off! Adam -- print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`