On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 23:26:46 -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >>At 22:34 2003-03-13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>On 13 Mar 2003, günter strubinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>>I am lost right now… >>> >>>Maybe you can't see the way because all that html is in the way. >> >> >>Right. And that silly ASCII business is overkill, too. >> >>I'm starting a new campaign to go back to Fieldata and Baudot. Who >>needs all that fancy-pants punctuation? If you can't get your >>meaning >>across with letters, numbers, comma, period and quotes (and, of >>course, >>the all-important dollar $ign), you just don't know how to >>communicate. >>Oh, yeah, and parentheses, of course... Hell, Fieldata has six >>unused >>codes. What a waste! Better stick to Baudot. >> >>RRS > >Pfhht, "Fieldata", "Baudot"! Kids today and thier MIL-STD's and >their "letter >sets" and their "figure sets", bah! Why, in my day, we had to press >crude >wooden styli into wet clay tablets to exchange information! Mehhhh. >And when >the clay dried and turned rock-hard before you were finished, you'd >get slivers >from the stylus embedded in your fingers. And the slivers would get >infected, >and pus would ooze all over your clay tablet, and we'd exchange pus- >stained >clay-tablet information and that’s the way it was AND WE LIKED IT! >We loved it. >We couldn't get enough of it. Yeah, we liked it just fine. >
Ug. What silly. We paint on cave walls. Grunt. -- Matthew O. Persico -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/