broken user software... sigh

Jeffrey Carlyle (jeffrey.carlyle@bgamug.com)
Sun, 2 Oct 1994 16:24:00 GMT

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B:\>Date: Sat, 1 Oct 1994 18:43:03 -0400
B:\>From: buglady@bronze.lcs.mit.edu (Aliza R. Panitz)
B:\>To: faq-maintainers@MIT.EDU
B:\>Subject: broken user software... *sigh*

B:\>And you thought AOL truncating FAQs at 24K was bad... I just got this
B:\>in the mail...

B:\>> Hi, welcome to 1994!
B:\>>
B:\>> Lots of us now access the net thru QWKmail doors.
B:\>> [QWK is a mail standard -- I could send you info, if you wished.]
B:\>> Many of our off line QWKmail readers will truncate messages at about
B:\>> line 90. Soooooooooooooooooooooo,
B:\>> If you really *WANT* your FAQ to be read by most newbies, then
B:\>> You'll have to break it into 90 line chunks.
B:\>>
B:\>> If you don't care whether new folks can read it, just keep on.

B:\>Any suggestions on how I can reply?

Tell your user to get a better QWK mail reader. The one I use
never truncates anything. It just breaks apart the messages.

// Jeffrey Carlyle, Perplexic Software, Bowling Green, KY USA _,,-^`--.
// comp.os.msdos.programmer FAQ maintainer .__,-' \
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// jeffrey.carlyle@bgamug.com (__,-----------''

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 * QMPro 1.53 * Windows 95? I think I'll wait for Windows 96.

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