Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 23:38:07 -0600 From: "@lbutlr" <kremels@kreme.com> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mailing List Etiquette was freebsd vs. netbsd Message-ID: <082AF774-7886-4E56-8482-768A7FE6E5EF@kreme.com> In-Reply-To: <20200613154409.GA89618@neutralgood.org> References: <00225a04-237d-9051-9aea-12c192106a20@anatoli.ws> <373EDB20-C750-42E2-A41B-EA61F6E49807@kicp.uchicago.edu> <20200609120136.00005b3c@seibercom.net> <2393a1e0-b073-950a-78be-9f57d8e9934b@anatoli.ws> <e1f6623a-3b3c-a43e-446a-d41f20f69418@kicp.uchicago.edu> <20200610063555.00003707@seibercom.net> <82F57D0D-E0EC-49F7-824E-20A296C9F549@kicp.uchicago.edu> <250b853a-b436-0e99-b05c-9abd6b6019ef@panix.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.2006101345220.97143@fledge.watson.org> <7018FA7A-32A6-4567-AA5D-1A90FF5FFF6C@kreme.com> <20200613154409.GA89618@neutralgood.org>
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On 13 Jun 2020, at 09:44, Kevin P. Neal <kpn@neutralgood.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 11:09:43PM -0600, @lbutlr wrote: >> On 10 Jun 2020, at 11:54, doug <doug@fledge.watson.org> wrote: >>> See https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/mailing-list-faq/etiquette.html#idp44832888 >> Seems very out of date too me. For example the first thing it says is to wrap messages at 75 characters because not everyone uses GUI mailers. This may have been relevant in 1995, but it sure isn’t now. CLI MUA’s handle long lines just fine. > If you had wrapped at 75 characters then the quoting would be much easier to read. Then your MUA is very poor at its job. -- May you live in interesting times
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