Re: broken user software... *sigh*

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Lani Teshima-Miller (teshima@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu)
Sat, 1 Oct 1994 13:23:45 -1000

Buglady reports that QWKmail truncates email at about line 90:
> > Lots of us now access the net thru QWKmail doors.
> > 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.

Criminy--that's like saying "Our new drivers use only horse-drawn
carriages on the roads. Can you please decrease the speed limit on the
freeway to 20mph and provide hay at the rest stops? If you don't care
about these new drivers, please keep your 55mph lightning-fast super
highways."

How many QWKmail readers are there, anyway? Seems *they* should come
up with some automated way that the FAQs could get ka-chunka'ed on
the way into their mailboxes. I realize a lot of what we're doing is
gearing to the lowest common denominator, but "0" is NOT an LCD!

Lani Teshima-Miller (teshima@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.edu) "Sea Hare" o/ /_/_/
UH School of Library & Info Studies. "Whatever the cost of our o|<0_0>------*
libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant \=^-| |_| |
nation." -Walter Cronkite [R.a.b.bit--FAQ Maintainer: "Think Ink!"] \_B}\_B}

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