24 Jun
2020
24 Jun
'20
10:21 a.m.
Someone whose name might be Marc might have written:
I vote we move the list to an Exchange server behind a SSL VPN and mandate
the use of Outlook, then force all messages to be in quoted-printable
encoding. This way nobody ?wins? and everyone is equally miserable.
It?s only fair.
C'mon, quoted-printable is usually fairly readable. How about base-64?
Or if this is regarded as too modern or too universal, how about uuencoding?
Peter Coghlan
wrote:
Does anyone use ASCII anymore?
I read and write my email with Emacs running in a terminal emulator.
I rarely need anything beoynd codepoint 126.
+1 on the Exchange server. You might even be able to have more than 2 people
connected to it at the same time without crashing, if you put enough admins
on the problem.
You can't use an Exchange server. I believe Exchange servers silently
discard messages whose message-id it has previously seen. This would solve
(actually hide) the duplicated messages problem and we can't have that!
But I would strongly suggest that we limit it to using characters from the
Baudot set. If not they don?t print right on my 1930 Teletype.
Also Darwin recently wrote a paper about us, and revoked his theory of
evolution.
Unlike the God-awfull Yahoo Groups, Groups.io works OK for the other lists
I follow. Meaning it?s functional and tolerable, and only moderately
infuriating. But it is certainly not as clean and efficient as this list
by a good margin. It would be good if we could preserve this.
Maybe evolve to the use of pictures or attachments, just to prove Darwin
wrong? Limited to ASCII art only pictures, of course.
Hang on, what about those who prefer their art in upper case EBCDIC only?
Regards,
Peter Coghlan
Marc