Erik Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wednesday, July 17, 2002, at 12:13 PM, Kevin D. Clark wrote: > > > [please configure your mailer to wrap lines] > > Is that the customary setting? I thought that the burden of wrapping > was upon the client, so that URLs don't get broken, etc. (I'm not > challenging you, I really am curious.) There's a lot that could be said about this topic, and most of it has already been said already (check the archives). I get the feeling that you already know what I'm talking about, since your mailer appears to wrap lines reasonably. A decent mail client should default to wrapping lines at around 72 columns. It should also easily allow you to send lines that are greater than 72 columns *if you want to*. It should *not* "helpfully" mangle your mail (wrap lines silently) for you before passing your mail off to the SMTP server. A mailer that doesn't have these properties, IMHO, stinks. > > Any sales guy who knows what you know about shell scripts impresses > > me. I know *very senior* engineers who don't know this stuff. > > Is that because they do it in Perl and therefore never use bash, or > because they don't program? (I hope it's the latter b/c that bodes > well for my current job hunt [server side programming]) "because they generally don't program and don't have any familiarity with the basic tools" is what I was getting at... Regards, --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark / Cetacean Networks / Portsmouth, N.H. (USA) cetaceannetworks.com!kclark (GnuPG ID: B280F24E) alumni.unh.edu!kdc ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
