> 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?
>
> - Aliza
Tell these people to get an rfc compliant mail/news reader, eg. one that
can read soup packets such as yarn or offliner for windows. Chances are
that if their system supports qwk it's running uqwk which can also make
soup packets. For more info look at the usenet group
alt.usenet.offline-reader.
--Shmuel-Weidberg--shmuel@io.org--Toronto-Canada--
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