Re: Windows Software for Posting FAQs

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Warren Young (tangent@cyberport.com)
Mon, 22 Jun 1998 21:22:17 -0600


At 05:06 PM 6/22/98 +0300, you wrote:
>On Mon, 22 Jun 1998 07:06:31 -0600, Warren Young
><tangent@cyberport.com> wrote:
> > Again, for the record, I personally keep my FAQ announcement typed
> > up in a text file which I paste into a telnet session into my ISP's
> > SMTP server. You can't get significantly better insurance against
> > header garbling.
>
>(For what it's worth, in my experience, a lot of Windows telnet
>applications garble the stuff that you paste in. I'd say use the FAQ
>server's auto posting feature unless you know what you are doing and
>know you can do it better than the server.)

I've not noticed any garbling, but then I don't use the standard
Windows telnet, either. Also, my FAQ announcement is still changing
almost monthly, so it's more convenient to post it myself, especially
since timing isn't all that important -- every month plus or minus a
week is good enough for my purposes.

>(And if you really did mean SMTP server and not NNTP server, I don't
>really see what this buys you, unless your mail program is as badly
>broken as your newsreader.)

TDM TLA. (Too D*** Many Three Letter Acronyms.) I can speak that
protocol, too. B-) It's amazing how easy and how handy they are.

>(But then the whole idea of using Windows for anything is flawed.
>... Sorry, couldn't resist.)

Yes, well, I lean a little bit the UNIX way myself, but Windows
definitely has advantages. I, for example, am a stickler for good-
looking interfaces. The plethora of widget sets and window managers
in the X world makes for a whole lot of butt-ugly programs. It's
all about tradeoffs....

= Warren -- http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent



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