-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Peter Coghlan
via cctalk
Sent: 18 June 2020 08:22
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: RE: Future of cctalk/cctech
ED SHARPE wrote:
Use modern email program that sees expanded char.
Sets and
graphics.... it is a brand new world ! I love old hardware to look
at but if communicating I like the ability to see graphical
things... and I think tell majority of people like images of
things...... Ed#
Just beware. Some environments, especially old EBCDIC ones put different currency symbols
on the same code points
So:-
I wrote this as one dollar => $1.00
This as one pound => $1
And this as one euro => ?1
Lastly one cent => ?1
I expect you all get that as sent except for perhaps the Euro which didn't exist when
Peters VAX was built....
... but on an old UK EBCDIC mainframe Dollar becomes Pound and Cent becomes dollar. This
was a real pain as a UK user of Bitnet.
Dave
Let me get this straight. If I stop using VMS MAIL
for this list and use one of
these new fangled things instead, I too will be able to make high quality
postings to the list, just like this one???
Regards,
Peter Coghlan
On Wednesday, June 17, 2020 Fred Cisin via cctalk <cisin at
xenosoft.com;
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, ED SHARPE @
AOHell.com via
cctalk wrote:
> These 2 have my vote as well....
> I do not know, anyone using a text only mail reader anymore!
>
>> The one thing I would change here is removal of the restriction on
attachments.
> >> Well, two things.. Getting rid of the cctalk/cctech split as well.
>
> I read this list on PINE, on a shell account at my ISP.
>
> In this group, I doubt that I am the only one.
>
>
> Can we restrict to TEXT emails?
>
> --
> Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at
xenosoft.com
>