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Re: Boulder Pledge



On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 02:06, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:03:36AM -0800, Alexander Hvostov wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 01:49, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:39:47PM -0800, John Shepherd wrote:
> > > > "Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited email message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community." - Roger Ebert, "The Boulder Pledge"
> > > 
> > > It might be a good idea to put some actual linefeeds in the middle
> > > though, rather than a 300+ character line.
> > 
> > If your mail reader can't word wrap, you need one that can. If it can,
> > then I don't see what the problem is.
> 
> Of course it wraps. But there's good reasons for 20 years of netiquette.
> Why don't we start top-posting while we're at it?

There's an obvious reason for not top-posting. There isn't an obvious
reason for not splitting long lines. Or is there, and I just don't know
about it?

Alex.

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