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Re: Boulder Pledge



On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 18:42, Daniel Barclay wrote:
> > But, agreed on the premise "mail reader can't wrap =3D broken".
> 
> Is broken really the right adjective?
> 
> Those mail readers weren't broken (or called broken) when they were written,
> and they haven't lost functionality since.

Correct. What changed is the standards for brokenness. By _modern_
standards, a mail reader that does not wrap is considered broken, even
if it was written when this behavior was perfectly acceptable.

Alex.

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