Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 03:08:42 -0400 From: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: "@lbutlr" <kremels@kreme.com> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mailing List Etiquette was freebsd vs. netbsd Message-ID: <CAGBxaXm4NLfCcA0jGzEvM4hCGoF_7L0y_Yd_X9kEEGHGL%2Bs1oA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <082AF774-7886-4E56-8482-768A7FE6E5EF@kreme.com> 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> <082AF774-7886-4E56-8482-768A7FE6E5EF@kreme.com>
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On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 1:38 AM @lbutlr <kremels@kreme.com> wrote: > 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#i= dp44832888 > > >> Seems very out of date too me.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=E2=80=99t now. CLI M= UA=E2=80=99s > 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. > Any MUA that arbitrarily reformats text is too smart for its own good and fundamentally broken in a critical way. When sending code snippets it is *CRITICAL* that white space not be modified in any way. Some languages (like Python) will even not work or produce buggy code if your indents (white spaces) are wrong. Note I consider Python too smart for its own good for this reason but it makes it even more important the MUA *NOT* mess with the message in *ANYWAY*. > > > > -- > May you live in interesting times > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > --=20 Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org
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