Re: [Epic] Airstrip card/terrain idea

From: Mark A Shieh <SHODAN+_at_...>
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 15:13:37 -0400 (EDT)

Chris White <chris_at_...> writes:
> Well, is <snip>ing really necessary? On my E-mail (MS Exchange), it shows
> by this symbol: > or >> or even >>> for a third generation which message
> is part of which. (Sorry if that thought train is difficult to follow; I
> lack the tech. terminology to make it more coherent.) It was the same when
> I was using Eudora.

        It's not that there's a lack of attribution (though that gets
screwed up sometimes), but a poster will sometimes quote the entire
message, and add a one-line reply, or if many issues are being
discussed, quote the entire message and only reply to one of them.

> BTW, is there an actual sysop for this list?

        Yeah, but he's pretty laid back. We've gotten quite off track
and he doesn't complain.

Mark

> Nickles
>
>
>
> begin 600 WINMAIL.DAT
> M>)\^(_at_02`0:0" `$```````!``$``0>0!@`(````Y 0```````#H``$-@ 0`
[snip 30 lines of uuencoding?]
> M`P`0$ `````#`!$0`````$ `!S!_at_48D8+*2\`4 `"#!_at_48D8+*2\`1X`/0`!
> 1````!0```%)%.B `````.BX`
> `
> end

It's this part of the message that bugs me. I don't have a
MIME-compliant reader, I think, and I don't have the part that strips
out uuencoded messages as well. The first time I saw these, I assumed
that someone was posting binaries again. :)

Mark
Received on Fri Aug 08 1997 - 19:13:37 UTC