on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 05:07:45PM -0700, Tim May (tcmay@got.net) wrote:
On Sunday, October 14, 2001, at 02:58 PM, measl@mfn.org wrote:
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote:
Could you please try posting *legible* content? This is utterly unreadable.
Your constant bitching about formatting is old. I have posted it as I received it - ugly, from a windblow$ luser.
I agree with Measl. I sent "Karsten M. Self" (if that's his real name) to the cornfield for his worthless contributions and willful ignorance.
I got the "Anthrax protocol issued" post just fine. Maybe it's because I have "Show MIME" disabled. Maybe "Karsten M. Self" is complaining because he has MIME enabled.
Nope. Pulling the same lne.com feed Tim is. There were a number of odd nonstandard characters (resolved as <ctrl>+ S, R, and W, mostly "smart quotes"), and in general poor linewrapping / spacing. That <ctrl>-S character is particularly annoying to root out on a GNU/Linux system. My general list formatting preferences are pretty vanilla: - 72 character lines. - Postfix (reply-after-quote) response. - Attribution lines corresponding to quoted content. - Quoted-line prefix, preferably '> ' or '>'. - Standard ASCII content, as opposed to extended charactersets, HTML, or proprietary document formats. The growing disregard of such conventions in many contexts is a growing annoyance of the Net. I happen to prefer signing messages per RFC 2015, and it's largely habitual. As lne.com de-mimes such attachments, this shouldn't be an issue for much of this list. I'm not an absolutist on MIME and extended character sets, believing there are appropriate uses. I'm satisfied with the recent coverage of this topic here, no need to elaborate. My point regards formatting: in the majority of cases, a few moments with a text editor is sufficient to greatly increase readability of of posted content. I happen to use vim, and can untangle most posts in under a minute. This is a matter of respect: one person's doing so saves the remainder the effort. I've noted that the posts I've bounced to list reformatted tend to gather response where originals don't. I also prefer to denote cited text via indentation as: an example of a block of cited text. I don't believe these are extraordinary preferences, and even sustpect Mr. May may agree with me on several. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]