Re: [asterisk-biz] virtualphoneline.com & DIDX.net

Nobody uses Pine anymore?

oops - does my age show

SIP wrote:

Jay R. Ashworth wrote:   

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 01:02:27PM -0400, SIP wrote:        

This is a mailing list; the rules here are pretty much the same as Usenet: your reputation will really honest-to-$DEITY live and die on 72 character hard wrapped lines, blank lines between paragraphs, no HTML, and a clean signature.  I am not, as the saying goes, making this up.                

So wait... by 'real' email client, you mean ELM?            

Mutt, actually.         

Seriously... what kind of standard is 72-character hard-wrapped lines?            

I haven't seen that since we all wrote on 80-character terminals. Which  are not what I'd call 'real' email clients.            

Then you don't hang out on Usenet, or many technical mailing lists.  The *vast* majority of messages I see on my 19 mailing lists (over 500 messages a day) are hard wrapped, where they're not HTML -- and we strongly discourage HTML; many lists hard-bounce it.  And with good reason:  	http://expita.com/nomime.html  Hell, even Outlook Web Access with Exchange 5.5 wraps replies to 78 columns.  I was pleasantly surprised to find out.  Still cant mark quotes properly.  You came up out of Fidonet, didn't you?  :-)  Cheers, -- jra        

I actually came up out of Usenet, but gave up those archaic habits when  they... you know... became archaic. Some call it progress. I call it  evolution.  I use mutt still on occasion (and elm on old machines) when I'm forced  in through a term window. But for the most part, I, and a huge majority  of actual living, breathing humans, find such things tedious and  needlessly arcane. While there's something to be said for honouring  traditions, there's also something to be said for not adhering to  outmoded methods of communication for the sake of proving one's digital  upbringing.  I wear my evolution as a badge of honour. ;)  N.  :wq   _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com--  asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:    http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz