In gnu.misc.discuss Doctor Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:51:47 +0000 (UTC), Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> In gnu.misc.discuss Doctor Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >>> One last thing, when are you guys going to format these messages so that >>> they are easily readable by humans? >>> They look like they came out of some listsever ciraca 1975. >> I find them perfectly readable - they have an optimal line width of ~70 >> characters, there's a single line gap between paragraphs, and they aren't >> right justified, hence giving the eye something to grip onto. This has >> been standard Usenet formatting since there was Usenet. >> It could be you're using inappropriate software to read it with - you >> should configure your software to display posts in an easily readable >> fashion (whatever that means for you), and if you can't do this, start >> using some decent software with which you can. What are you using, by >> the way? > Typical Linux, blame the user, the reader etc. > You *nix high priests have to get with the program. Oh, I see, you want to hurl abuse at somebody. Well, fair enough! > FWIW it doesn't matter what reader is used. Really? Maybe it matters more who the reader is. > It's the carp you insert at the start of these messages. I didn't insert any goldfish whatsoever. > Here it is copied right off Google: > <blockquote > what="official announcement of Russ Nelson talk and OpenStreetMap party" > note="The Courant Institute is associated with NYU, not Columbia > University." > info="for Thursday 16 April 2009 talk at Courant: > http://cs.nyu.edu/~macsweb"; > edits=""> Oh, I see. Yeah, it isn't that brilliant, is it? It looks like the input to some sort of scripting program which produces the announcement, and it's left trash in the posting. I'll admit I didn't notice it first time. But the message, as a whole, was readable. You'd be doing everybody a favour if you sent an email to the author, asking him to fix his script. A polite email, that is. I just wish he'd stop spamming the newsgroup. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
