Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-27 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, Mutt (as distributed w/ Slink) will spawn Lynx in a text terminal and Netscape under X, by default. These are of course user configurable. On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 01:06:29AM -0800, Adam Shand wrote: > > a little late but ... > > > Only HTML (among formats that some readers can handle) rea

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-27 Thread Adam Shand
a little late but ... > Only HTML (among formats that some readers can handle) really handles > nested quotes well, IMHO. It's got a tag just for it. Do any > text-based readers handle HTML (by spawning Lynx or something)? Just > curious; I wouldn't *dare* post HTML here. ;-) pine (and i'm p

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-23 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23 Jul 1999 22:16:00 +0200, Colin Marquardt wrote: >> Don't do that! The standard line length is 80 columns, and all sane >In fact, your line length should be even smaller than that to allow >for quoting. RFC 1036 (I think) says 72 columns.

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-23 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Don't do that! The standard line length is 80 columns, and all sane In fact, your line length should be even smaller than that to allow for quoting. RFC 1036 (I think) says 72 columns. -- Colin Marquardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-23 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Mark Brown wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 12:43:37AM +, Lee Elliott wrote: > > > Sorry to have peeved you, I do this deliberately so that paragraphs format > > OK regardless of window size (I'm only able to check this on YAM & Outlook) > > - for me, reading: > > Don't do that! The sta

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-23 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 22 Jul, Wayne Topa wrote about "Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists" > > Subject: Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists > Date: Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 12:43:37AM + > > In reply to:Lee Elliott > > Quoting Lee Elliott([EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists Date: Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 12:36:06AM -0700 In reply to:Mark Wagnon Quoting Mark Wagnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Mark Brown wrote: > To check that I'm not unknowingly sending long lines, how does > this look? Messed

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists Date: Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 12:43:37AM + In reply to:Lee Elliott Quoting Lee Elliott([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On 22-Jul-99, you wrote: > > >> An observation from this Newbie may be related: > > Sorry

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-23 Thread Mark Wagnon
Mark Brown wrote: > > Don't do that! The standard line length is 80 columns, and all sane > mail clients can display that without problems. Most Unix mail clients > do *not* do word wrapping in either display mode (spacing may be To check that I'm not unknowingly sending long lines, how does th

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 12:43:37AM +, Lee Elliott wrote: > Sorry to have peeved you, I do this deliberately so that paragraphs format OK > regardless of window size (I'm only able to check this on YAM & Outlook) - > for me, reading: Don't do that! The standard line length is 80 columns, an

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-23 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 23 Jul, Lee Elliott wrote about "Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists" > On 22-Jul-99, you wrote: > >>> An observation from this Newbie may be related: > > ... > >> >> My pet peeve is mail that is all on one line and not properly wo

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-23 Thread Lee Elliott
On 22-Jul-99, you wrote: >> An observation from this Newbie may be related: ... > > My pet peeve is mail that is all on one line and not properly word > wrapped, such as this one. Sorry to have peeved you, I do this deliberately so that paragraphs format OK regardless of window size (I'm on

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-22 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 22 Jul, Lee Elliott wrote about "Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists" > On 21-Jul-99, you wrote: > > An observation from this Newbie may be related: I'm also on the Real3D list, > which uses MajorDomo, and the postings I get from that list come with t

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-22 Thread Lee Elliott
On 21-Jul-99, you wrote: An observation from this Newbie may be related: I'm also on the Real3D list, which uses MajorDomo, and the postings I get from that list come with the 'Reply To' set to the mailing list whereas the postings from Debian User arrive with 'Reply To' set to the sender. Wh

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Steve" == Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Steve> I don't think people reply to any ol' message to create a new Steve> message, but are replying to a message and were courtious Steve> enough to change the subject and now someone is bitching about Steve> it. No, this is usually not the c

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-22 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists Date: Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 09:30:20AM -0500 In reply to:Keith G. Murphy Quoting Keith G. Murphy([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've also noticed that Netscape (which I use) never sets 'In-Reply-To:' > at all; it

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-22 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 09:21:17 -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: >I think what he's saying, Wayne, is that he's doing a reply instead of >generating a new message so he won't have to remember the list address >or put it in his address book. "Trying" would

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-22 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Stephen Pitts wrote: > > > If you wish to start a new thread on the list, > PLEASE send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > DO NOT just reply to any old message in your mailbox. > If you do that, then the threading gets messed up, > and it doesn't display right in the archives, or > in threaded mail

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-22 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Wayne Topa wrote: > > Subject: Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists > Date: Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 05:12:22PM -0400 > > In reply to:William T Wilson > > Quoting William T Wilson([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Wayne Topa wrote: >

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-22 Thread Patrick Kirk
Isn't there to set up mutt to look like pine that comes with debian? > -- > Alpha. Software undergoes alpha testing as a first step in getting > user feedback. Alpha is Latin for "doesn't work." Isn't Alpha Greek? > ___ > Wayne T. Topa <[EMAIL

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-22 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> Quoting Stephen Pitts([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > If you wish to start a new thread on the list, > > PLEASE send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > DO NOT just reply to any old message in your mailbox. > > If you do that, then the threading gets messed up, > > and it doesn't display right in th

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-22 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists Date: Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 05:12:22PM -0400 In reply to:William T Wilson Quoting William T Wilson([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > I just did an informal survey on which maile

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-21 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 21 Jul 1999 17:12:22 -0400 (EDT), William T Wilson wrote: >The problem is that, although Pine manages to set the in-reply-to: >headers, etc. it does not give the user an opportunity to edit them - even >if you turn on full header mode. No

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-21 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Wayne Topa wrote: > I just did an informal survey on which mailer program by those > offenders are using. > > Pine8 As a long-time Pine user (check the headers) I must confess that I have been occasionally guilty of the same offense. The problem is that, although

Re: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists

1999-07-21 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: A Pet Peeve about posting on the lists Date: Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 10:00:45PM -0500 In reply to:Stephen Pitts Quoting Stephen Pitts([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > If you wish to start a new thread on the list, > PLEASE send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > DO NOT just reply to