Re: broken user software... *sigh*

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Christopher Klaus (cklaus@shadow.net)
Sat, 1 Oct 94 19:16:40 EDT

>
> And you thought AOL truncating FAQs at 24K was bad... I just got this
> in the mail...
>
> > Hi, welcome to 1994!
> >
> > Lots of us now access the net thru QWKmail doors.
> > [QWK is a mail standard -- I could send you info, if you wished.]
> > Many of our off line QWKmail readers will truncate messages at about
> > line 90. Soooooooooooooooooooooo,
> > If you really *WANT* your FAQ to be read by most newbies, then
> > You'll have to break it into 90 line chunks.
> >
> > If you don't care whether new folks can read it, just keep on.
>
> Any suggestions on how I can reply?

Yea, tell him 90 lines is ridiculously small and that it shouldnt be
the lowest common denominator that restricts how big our faq's should be.
I mean, some where I am sure they only allow 24 lines to be in a message.
Will we need to switch our faqs to that then? please. if they want
to access the net thru qwkmail doors, they better complain to the authors
of qwk to increase the size past 90 lines. or switch to different software.

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Christopher William Klaus  <cklaus@shadow.net>  <iss@shadow.net>
Internet Security Systems, Inc.         Computer Security Consulting
2209 Summit Place Drive,              Penetration Analysis of Networks
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