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[ILUG] Re: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

[ILUG] Re: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

Ronan Waide waider at waider.ie
Sat Sep 8 23:52:51 IST 2001


On September 8, niall at linux.ie said:
> 
> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
> 

"Don't send MIME Quoted-Printable encoding either; all those =20
 glyphs scattered through the text are ugly and distracting."

Wow. I know esr makes a big deal about how he's an old-time hacker
(relatively speaking) and all, but really. MIME's been established for
quite a while now, and if his mailer doesn't handle it, maybe /he/
needs to be asking a few questions of his own...

Waider.
-- 
waider at waider.ie / Yes, it /is/ very personal of me.

"Crying for sympathy / crocodile cries / for the love of the crowd and the
 three cheers from everyone" - The Cure, _Disintegration_




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