G. Branden Robinson wrote: > I know this concept by the name "bricktext"; a guy named Jim Warner has > been practicing it in Git commit messages for the procps project[A] > since at least 2012, but if I remember correctly he was doing it in his > emails many years before that. I learned of the phenomenon from Joey > Hess on the Debian mailing lists over 20 years ago. Joey, do you recall > more details? Was Jim the person you had in mind back then?
The name possibly vaguely rings a bell, but I searched my email achives and didn't see him back to the mid 90's. It seems more likely to me that I was writing, and just happened to have a paragraph almost perfectly self justify and then played with it a bit. Or I could have seen it on usenet at some point. Also, .signature blocks commonly were formatted as bricks back in the day. -- see shy jo
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