From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 7 8:28: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8D3037BDBA for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 08:27:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12dafF-0007Pk-00; Fri, 07 Apr 2000 16:27:17 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12dafF-000GS8-00; Fri, 07 Apr 2000 16:27:17 +0100 Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 16:27:17 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: David Nixon Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Attachments request -OOOOOPS Message-ID: <20000407162717.C4744@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Nixon wrote: > Now back to your first e-mail. I mentioned the setting for vi in > response to Chad R. Larson's e-mail. He specifically mentioned that > he used vi for e-mail in a previous e-mail. If you go back and reread > his message then you might realize why I mentioned it. I honestly > ask, does Chad Larson change that setting for e-mail then change > it back for other vi uses? If not, then he and everyone else who > does not format their text at less that 65 characters are guilty of > violating RFC 1855 (as you have quoted this group). Most people use 80 characters, which is a hell of a lot closer to 65 than your unbroken lines (or broken, depending on which way you look at it). > multiple columns just for fun? Anyway, read this extract from RFC 1855 and ....+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7....+....8 > *************************************************************************** > > Count the splats. This line appears in Ben Smithurst's message below. How many characters per line? > Hypocritical..... Welcome to the guilty. Shit, I'm about 10 characters over the limit. You're a few hundred over. Nevermind, you're getting boring now. You'll be glad to know you'll get no more responses from me. *plonk* -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message