ANST - Regional identity...

[Timothy A. McDaniel]

Raven wrote:
> What is all this crap that keeps coming in you messages?
> SEE BELOW

The problem with people having problems with mail formats is
that the sender usually CAN'T see it.  He doesn't see

    (color)(param)0000,0000,0000(/param).. on events(italic)
    (/italic)(/color)

(where I have replaced the angle brackets with parentheses
to make them visible to all); he sees what is to him a
properly rendered message.  Many of the rest of us have to
play word search for their text.

Similarly, most people with line lengths over 80 characters
don't see a problem, because *their* mailer does auto word
wrap.  When I read personal mail at work, my choices of
interface is

    1. telnet
    2. there is choice 2

Net lag is bad enough that I want as little overhead as
possible, so I use default UNIX Mail and more(1), which
doesn't work well with long lines.

With result that I delete Wolf's messages unread.

Daniel de Lincolia
-- 
Tim McDaniel.   Reply to tmcd at crl.com;
    if that fail, tmcd at austin.ibm.com is my work account.
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